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On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 04:22:38AM +0200, marco atzeri wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:25 PM, A.R. Burgers  wrote:
>> Op 31-3-2011 22:44, marco atzeri schreef:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:21 PM, A.R. Burgers ?wrote:
>>>>
>>>> LS,
>>>>
>>>> with the current octave, I get this octave strcat
>>>> error on plot, both with xterm and the dumb terminal.
>>>> Same error on two different windows XP systems.
>>>> Same error with libstdc++6 and libgfortran3 from cygwin-ports gcc 4.5.2-2
>>>>
>>>> Teun
>>>>
>>>> $ octave
>>>> GNU Octave, version 3.4.0
>>>> Copyright (C) 2011 John W. Eaton and others.
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> octave:1> ?t=(0:0.1:2*pi);
>>>> octave:2> ?plot(t,sin(t))
>>>> error: Invalid call to strcat. ?Correct usage is:
>>>>
>>>> ?-- Function File: ?strcat (S1, S2, ...)
>>>>
>>>> error: called from:
>>>> error: ? /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/help/print_usage.m at line 87, column
>>>> 5
>>>> error: ? /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/strings/strcat.m at line 92, column 5
>>>> error: ? /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_get_var__.m at line
>>>> 113,
>>>> column 11
>>>> error: ? /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m at line 40,
>>>> column 18
>>>> error: ? /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m at line 167,
>>>> column 19
>>>> error: ? /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 86,
>>>> column 5
>>>> octave:3> ?quit
>>>>
>>>> BURGERS AT P4949 ~
>>>> $ echo $TERM $DISPLAY
>>>> xterm :0
>>>>
>>>> BURGERS AT P4949 ~
>>>> $ cygcheck -c octave liblapack0 cygwin libqrupdate0 libgfortran3
>>>> libstdc++
>>>> gnuplot
>>>> Cygwin Package Information
>>>> Package ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Version ? ? ? ?Status
>>>> cygwin ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.7.9-1 ? ? ? ?OK
>>>> gnuplot ? ? ? ? ? ? ?4.4.0-1 ? ? ? ?OK
>>>> libgfortran3 ? ? ? ? 4.3.4-4 ? ? ? ?OK
>>>> liblapack0 ? ? ? ? ? 3.2.2-2 ? ? ? ?OK
>>>> libqrupdate0 ? ? ? ? 1.1.1-1 ? ? ? ?OK
>>>> octave ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 3.4.0-3 ? ? ? ?OK
>>>>
>>> could you just check if reversing to cygwin ?1.7.8-1 solve the problem ?
>>>
>>> I also noted the same problem this morning, but it was puzzling and
>>> NOT really repetitive.
>>
>> Your hunch was right, downgrading to 1.7.8-1 solves it
>>
>> Teun
>>
>
>it seems caused by a change between cygwin snapshots 20110308 and 20110309
>
>Corinna, gcf
>Have we catch a fhandler / pipe special case ?

Since it's in the dll_init() function, I don't see how it could be pipe related.
Does strace implicate pipe handling?

gcf

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