Gnuplot arguments in a Homebrew installation

Question

After installing gnuplot on my Mac with Homebrew, I noticed that it passes many arguments to the configure file. More precisely, this is the result that I received on the terminal

 $ brew install gnuplot ==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gnuplot/gnuplot/4.6.3/gnuplot-4.6.3.tar.gz Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/gnuplot-4.6.3.tar.gz ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/gnuplot/4.6.3 --with-readline=/usr/local/opt/readline --with-gd=/usr/local/opt/gd --disable-wxwidgets --without-cairo --without-latex --without-tutorial 

Then I realized why what I had on my Mac was such a poorer version of what I had on Ubuntu. Therefore, while browsing the network, I found that in order to be able to use the wxt terminal wxt I need to add the --wx flag for installation. In addition, it was suggested to use --pdf and --with-x . When visually analyzing the output that I had on the screen (which I pasted above), I compiled other flags such as --cairo and --tutorial , and I got the following output

 $ brew install gnuplot --wx --cairo --pdf --with-x --tutorial ==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gnuplot/gnuplot/4.6.3/gnuplot-4.6.3.tar.gz Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/gnuplot-4.6.3.tar.gz ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/gnuplot/4.6.3 --with-readline=/usr/local/opt/readline --with-pdf=/usr/local/opt/pdflib-lite --with-gd=/usr/local/opt/gd --without-latex --without-tutorial ==> make ==> make install   /usr/local/Cellar/gnuplot/4.6.3: 49 files, 5.4M, built in 37 seconds 

Now my question is: where the hell can I find a list of valid arguments to use for installing Homebrew, like here for gnupot? Moreover, somehow he did not accept my --tutorial

Answer 1

You can run brew options <formula> to get a list of options for a given formula. For example, for gnuplot:

 $ brew options gnuplot