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Re: [Fink-users] gnuplot not working on Snow Leopard

Alexander Hansen
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:35:59 -0800

Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 06:34:45PM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>   
>> Walt Mankowski wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:20:02PM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Walt Mankowski wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> When I try to run gnuplot on Snow Leopard (10.6.2) I get the following 
>>>>> error:
>>>>>
>>>>>   dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libexpat.0.dylib
>>>>>     Referenced from: /sw/lib/libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.0.dylib
>>>>>     Reason: image not found
>>>>>   /sw/bin/gnuplot: line 6: 83973 Trace/BPT trap         /sw/bin/gnuplotx 
>>>>> "$@"
>>>>>
>>>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libexpat.0.dylib does not exist, but I do have
>>>>> libexpat 1.5.2 in /usr/lib and /sw/lib.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried running 'fink rebuild gnuplot', but that fails with the
>>>>> following error:
>>>>>
>>>>>   ld: file not found: /usr/X11R6/lib/libexpat.0.dylib
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know how to fix this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Walt
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> In gen
>>>>
>>>> The error is lower in the chain:  it's in
>>>> /sw/lib/libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.0.dylib, which is in wxgtk-shlibs.  Try
>>>> rebuilding hat
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I don't have wxgtk-shlibs installed, but rather wxgtk2.8-shlibs.  I
>>> tried rebuilding that, and it also failed on
>>>
>>>   ld: file not found: /usr/X11R6/lib/libexpat.0.dylib
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Ah, sorry; the 2.8 is important there.  Did you upgrade from Leopard?
>>     
>
> I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, and then (after some time) to Snow
> Leopard.
>
>   
>> It's a bit hard to say given the lack of context with the error message
>> here, but this could potentially
>> be a case which could be worked around via
>>
>>     sudo -s
>>     find /sw/lib -name *.la -delete
>>     fink rebuild wxgtk2.8-shlibs
>>     
>
> Running
>
>   find /sw/lib -name '*.la' | wc
>
> tells me I've got 502 files under there.  Many of them have been added
> since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, and many don't seem to have anything
> to do with gtk.  Are you suggesting I delete ALL of them?
>
> Walt
>
>   
You could grep through them and find any reference to libexpat.0.dylib
and delete those files.

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