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Subject: Re: Fwd: octave updated to 3.4.0-3. Please test (strcat error)
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 09:46:26 -0700
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From: "Jeffrey Kletsky" <jkletsky AT guidewire DOT com>
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This is a problem on Windows 7 Enterprise, 64-bit; cygwin 1.7.9-1; octave 3=
.4.0-3

Reinstalling Octave does not resolve
rebaseall does not resolve

Any suggestions on how to resolve?

TIA,

Jeff


$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 JKLETSKY-T41 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cyg=
win

$ octave
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octave:1> plot([1 2 3], [1 2 3])
error: Invalid call to strcat.=A0 Correct usage is:

-- Function File:=A0 strcat (S1, S2, ...)

error: called from:
error:=A0=A0 /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/help/print_usage.m at line 87, colum=
n 5
error:=A0=A0 /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/strings/strcat.m at line 92, column 5
error:=A0=A0 /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_get_var__.m at line 1=
13, column 11
error:=A0=A0 /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m at line 40, =
column 18
error:=A0=A0 /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m at line 16=
7, column 19
error:=A0=A0 /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 8=
6, column 5
octave:2> quit
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'octave_interrupt_exception'
panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Aborted (core dumped)


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Christopher Faylor=A0 wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:24:31PM -0400, Stan wrote:
>>On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:05:24AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 03:54:05PM +0900, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>> >Hello
>>> >
>>> >I have confirmed that octave-3.4.0-3 fails to plot on cygwin 1.7.9-1 b=
ut not 1.7.8-1.
>>>
>>> We don't need confirmation that octave doesn't work. ?We need to know if
>>> rebasing works around the problem.
>>
>>Here on Win 7 64bit I have:
>>$ uname -a
>>CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 darkstar 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
>>
>>Cygwin Package Information
>>Package ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Version ? ? ? ?Status
>>cygwin ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1.7.9-1 ? ? ? ?OK
>>octave ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 3.4.0-3 ? ? ? ?OK
>>gnuplot ? ? ? ? ? ? ?4.4.0-1 ? ? ? ?OK
>>
>>
>>I did rebaseall and I still get the error:
>>
>>octave:1> t =3D 0:2*pi/100:2*pi;
>>octave:2> plot(t,sin(t))
>>error: Invalid call to strcat. ?Correct usage is:
>>
>> -- Function File: ?strcat (S1, S2, ...)


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