I needed to be able to plot clustered, stacked histograms. There are patches by Ethan Merritt that make gnuplot able to plot this kind of graphs. <http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/people/merritt/gnuplot> I have modified the FreeBSD gnuplot port so that it is able to download and apply the patches. The port has now an additional option (WITH_HISTOGRAMS) to select this functionality. The patches relevant to this issue (datastrings_4.0 and histograms_4.0) have been already applied to the 4.1 development tree in CVS so it won't be necessary to patch 4.1 (whenever it is released) to have this functionality. Not relevant to this update, but, is it possible to include readline functionality for FreeBSD-4.x? Perhaps adding something like .if ${OSVERSION} < 50018 LIB_DEPENDS+= readline.4:${PORTSDIR}/devel/readline .endif What are the reasons for having readline only available for OSVERSION > 50018?
+----[ FreeBSD GNATS PR Submission <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> (18.Oct.2004 12:09): | | http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72827 | +----] Regarding the readline issue, I've succesfully built gnuplot with readline functionality in FreeBSD-4.10. I've included --with-readline=gnu by default into CONFIGURE_ARGS and added a LIB_DEPENDS only for OSVERSION < 50018 (I still don't know why the difference between FreeBSD >= 500018 and < 50018, but I assume it should be something significant, since it was included in the original port). Under FreeBSD-4.10, readline-5.0 was built and installed before gnuplot, and the resulting gnuplot was now able to complete commands (for example filenames). A diff between the current Makefile and the one including these changes and the other changes mentioned in this PR (stacked histograms patches) is attached. Fernan -- Fernan Aguero - fernan at iib.unsam.edu.ar Phone: +54 11 4580-7255/7 ext 310, Fax: +54 11 4752-9639 Check http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan for more info.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->glewis Over to maintainer.
State Changed From-To: open->closed Committed, thanks! Next time, please check the packing list (it was broken by the histogram support).