GNUplot is not interacting properly with AuqaTerm

[fehmtf@…]

I installed gnuplot and aquaterm using macport. i got no errors during installation and gnuplot successfully sets the term output to aqua. When i try to plot something, e.g. plot sin(x), aqua term starts successfully but nothing happens. No window pops up and gnuplot does not give an error message. I searched the system log files and found the following error message:

6/25/2010 8:45:30 PM AquaTerm[1983] more significant bytes (8) than room to hold them (4)

I don't really understand the error but i belief that i am not the only one experiencing this problem. There is definitely no error with gnuplot itself. I can create plots using x11 so the error occurs probably somewhere during interaction between gnuplot and aquaterm.

[gnwiii@…]

Replying to fehmtf@…:

I installed gnuplot and aquaterm using macport. i got no errors during installation and gnuplot successfully sets the term output to aqua. When i try to plot something, e.g. plot sin(x), aqua term starts successfully but nothing happens. No window pops up and gnuplot does not give an error message. I searched the system log files and found the following error message:

6/25/2010 8:45:30 PM AquaTerm[1983] more significant bytes (8) than room to hold them (4)

I don't really understand the error but i belief that i am not the only one experiencing this problem. There is definitely no error with gnuplot itself. I can create plots using x11 so the error occurs probably somewhere during interaction between gnuplot and aquaterm.

This suggests that one of the programs is running in 64-bit mode, the other in 32-bit mode. On Leopard I ended up with:

$ port installed aquaterm gnuplot
The following ports are currently installed:
  aquaterm @1.0.1_5+universal (active)
  gnuplot @4.4.0_0+darwin+wxwidgets (active)
$ file $(which gnuplot)
/usr/local/bin/gnuplot: Mach-O executable i386
$ file /Applications/MacPorts/AquaTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/AquaTerm 
/Applications/MacPorts/AquaTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/AquaTerm: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/Applications/MacPorts/AquaTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/AquaTerm (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/Applications/MacPorts/AquaTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/AquaTerm (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386

If I don't set AquaTerm to run in 32-bit mode, I get similar symptoms, but nothing from AquaTerm in the logs.

[snc@…]

Duplicate of #24714.