Re: DYNAMIC_PLOTTING with gnuplot made easy

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Daniel Duparc wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:45:29 -0400
> Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:19:40PM +0200, Karim BELABAS wrote:
> > > My (wild) guess when looking at gnuterm/term/x11.prm, is that you need
> > > gnuplot_x11 to be present in the path, otherwise I don't see how all this can
> > > possibly work.
> > >
> > > Check: I renamed gnuplot_x11, and 'make test' does not work anymore for me
> > > either (gnuplot_x11 never was in root's path in any case). If I put it back,
> > > it works.
> > >
> > > So, either skip the x11 test, make it non-fatal (it would be skipped anyway,
> > > should DISPLAY not be set) or ask user to fully install gnuplot first.
> >
> > Yes, having fully installed gnuplot is a requirement for x11
> > plotting...  Hmm, but why is something different when not root?
> >
>
> I think that in many distributions of Linux, root has
> a $PATH quite different of a normal user's $PATH,
> (for security reasons?)

Right. As alluded to above ("gnuplot_x11 never was in root's path"),
gnuplot_x11 was in /usr/local/bin, which is not in root PATH, whereas it was
in mine.

    Karim.
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