I have updated my computers to OS X Mavericks. Mac users and Allin will be pleased to hear that Gretl Quartz works like a charm on the latest incarnation of OS X. I’ve done the usual fooling around with klein.inp. Displaying graphs also works. All seems to work as expected. But there is something wrong. Starting a gnuplot from the menu works but as soon as you issue a plot command in gnuplot, gnuplot becomes unresponsive. AquaTerm is launched but no plot in an Aquaterm window appears. Issuing "help show” in gnuplot gives: /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnuplot/4.7/gnuplot.gih: No such file or directory but in the startup message of gnuplot is says: Version 4.6 patchlevel 4 last modified 2013-10-06 I’m running gretl 1.9.14cvs (build date: 2013-10-26) on OS X 10.9.

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Berend Hasselman wrote: > On 29-10-2013, at 15:58, Berend Hasselman <bhh(a)xs4all.nl&gt; wrote: >> >> I have updated my computers to OS X Mavericks. >> Mac users and Allin will be pleased to hear that Gretl Quartz works like a charm on the latest incarnation of OS X. >> >> I’ve done the usual fooling around with klein.inp. Displaying graphs also works. >> All seems to work as expected. >> >> But there is something wrong. >> >> Starting a gnuplot from the menu works but as soon as you issue a plot command in gnuplot, gnuplot becomes unresponsive. >> AquaTerm is launched but no plot in an Aquaterm window appears. >> >> Issuing "help show” in gnuplot gives: >> >> /Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnuplot/4.7/gnuplot.gih: No such file or directory >> >> but in the startup message of gnuplot is says: Version 4.6 patchlevel 4 last modified 2013-10-06 >> >> I’m running gretl 1.9.14cvs (build date: 2013-10-26) on OS X 10.9. > > Follow-up: > > On Snow Leopard the above experiment did work in the sense that an AquaTerm window with a plot appears and gnuplot doesn’t wait for input. > On Mountain Lion it also works. I'll try updating AquaTerm to 1.1.1 and see if that helps.

> Another funny thing: on Mavericks recalling a gnuplot command always shows \040 for space(s) Something incompatible in Mavericks in relation to libreadline, maybe? Does Mavericks have libedit installed?

On 29-10-2013, at 19:35, Berend Hasselman <bhh(a)xs4all.nl&gt; wrote: > > I just tried again and it is AquaTerm that is not doing what it is supposed to do. > It gets focus from gnuplot and just sits there not doing anything; it is not opening a window for displaying a graph. > I vaguely remember that this was an issue in the past with AquaTerm but I can’t locate any discussion about this. > The cause of this is that I have a private version of the AquaTerm framework in /Library/Frameworks. It is version 1.0.1. So Gretl’s gnuplot was using the wrong AquaTerm. But on my Snow Leopard machine the situation is the same and there the correct AquaTerm is called. Why this is happening? Mysterious ways of searching of OS X’s dynamic linker? Or something to do with the way linaquaterm.dylib is supposed to look for AquaTerm.app?