http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary
http://octave.sourceforge.net/

I have a MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X 10.5.6. At first, I had the same problem as Kopinjol (with the _rl_* errors). I did the –with-readline=builtin thing and it fixed that part. When I did the make, I got:

make
make all-recursive
Making all in config
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
Making all in m4
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
Making all in term
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
Making all in src
Making all in wxterminal
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../term -I../term -DBINDIR=\”/usr/local/bin\” -DX11_DRIVER_DIR=\”/usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.3\” -DGNUPLOT_PS_DIR=\”/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3/PostScript\” -DCONTACT=\”gnuplot-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net\” -DHELPFILE=\”/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3/gnuplot.gih\” -DGNUPLOT_X11=\”`echo gnuplot_x11 | sed ’s,x,x,’`\” -g -O2 -ObjC -MT alloc.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/alloc.Tpo -c -o alloc.o alloc.c
mv -f .deps/alloc.Tpo .deps/alloc.Po
….
…
In file included from term.h:173,
from term.c:1368:
../term/aquaterm.trm: In function ‘AQUA_boxfill’:
../term/aquaterm.trm:586: warning: ‘AQTAdapter’ may not respond to ‘-setColorRed:green:blue:alpha:’
../term/aquaterm.trm:586: warning: (Messages without a matching method signature
../term/aquaterm.trm:586: warning: will be assumed to return ‘id’ and accept
../term/aquaterm.trm:586: warning: ‘…’ as arguments.)
../term/aquaterm.trm: In function ‘AQUA_filled_polygon’:
../term/aquaterm.trm:683: warning: ‘AQTAdapter’ may not respond to ‘-setColorRed:green:blue:alpha:’
mv -f .deps/term.Tpo .deps/term.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../term -I../term -DBINDIR=\”/usr/local/bin\” -DX11_DRIVER_DIR=\”/usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.3\” -DGNUPLOT_PS_DIR=\”/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3/PostScript\” -DCONTACT=\”gnuplot-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net\” -DHELPFILE=\”/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3/gnuplot.gih\” -DGNUPLOT_X11=\”`echo gnuplot_x11 | sed ’s,x,x,’`\” -g -O2 -ObjC -MT time.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/time.Tpo -c -o time.o time.c
mv -f .deps/time.Tpo .deps/time.Po
….
….
gcc -g -O2 -ObjC -o bf_test bf_test.o binary.o alloc.o -laquaterm -framework Foundation
Making all in docs
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../src -I../term -g -O2 -ObjC -c doc2gih.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../src -I../term -g -O2 -ObjC -c termdoc.c
gcc -g -O2 -ObjC -o doc2gih doc2gih.o termdoc.o -laquaterm -framework Foundation
./doc2gih ./gnuplot.doc gnuplot.gih
Making all in lisp
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
Making all in man
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
Making all in demo
Creating binary data files
Making all in tutorial
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
Making all in share
Making all in LaTeX
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am’.

And I got the following when I did make install, I got:

Making install in config
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.
Making install in m4
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.
Making install in term
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
test -z “/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3/PostScript” || .././install-sh -c -d “/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3/PostScript”
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ‘PostScript/cp1250.ps’ ‘/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3/PostScript/cp1250.ps’
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ‘PostScript/cp437.ps’ ‘/usr/local/share/gnuplot/4.3/PostScript/cp437.ps’
….
…
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 gnuplot.elc /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot.elc
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 gnuplot-gui.elc /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot-gui.elc
Making install in man
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
test -z “/usr/local/share/man/man1″ || .././install-sh -c -d “/usr/local/share/man/man1″
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ‘./gnuplot.1′ ‘/usr/local/share/man/man1/gnuplot.1′
make install-data-hook
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-hook’.
Making install in demo
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.
Making install in tutorial
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.
Making install in share
Making install in LaTeX
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make install-data-hook
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
test -z “/usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults” || .././install-sh -c -d “/usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults”
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ‘Gnuplot’ ‘/usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults/Gnuplot’
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.

and then when I try to start gnuplot, it says the good old “command not found”…. What to do? Help! Thanks a lot in advance

sudo port install gnuplot

http://gavmacprogramming.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/installing-gnuplot/

I found the fix for your problem here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.devel/7544

The keyword “origin” has been replaced in some places by “origin_”, but the fix is easy: in the source directory, use the following sed command, and run make again:

$ sed -i ’s/origin_/origin/g’ docs/gnuplot.texi

That fixed it for me.

From terminal:
./gnuplot.texi:10582: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:10076: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:9734: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:9513: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:9502: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:9493: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:9476: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:9474: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:7413: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:4870: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:4851: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:4840: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:3459: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./gnuplot.texi:3131: Cross reference to nonexistent node `origin’ (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
makeinfo: Removing output file `gnuplot.info’ due to errors; use –force to preserve.
make[1]: *** [gnuplot.info] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Also there were no such:

if INCLUDE_BINARY_C
gnuplot_SOURCES += binary.c
endif

lines in my src/Makefile.am, so I only commented out the second group of lines at step 5.

I also had to add:

–with-readline=builtin

to the configure command at step 6.

Then everything went ok.

Btw, in my case, the executable installed in /usr/local/bin .