Re: Fwd: octave updated to 3.4.0-3. Please test (strcat error)

[marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Christopher Faylor  wrote:
> 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@P4949 ~
>>>>> $ echo $TERM $DISPLAY
>>>>> xterm :0
>>>>>
>>>>> BURGERS@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
>

I need to check for the strace.

I was just guessing around the changelog entry

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/winsup-changelog-20110308-20110309

it reports mainly fhandler and pipe changes.

Marco

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