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


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.


Marco

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