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

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

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Jeffrey Kletsky wrote:
> 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?
>

try downgrading cygwin to 1.7.8-1.
On windows XP , it is the current workaround; but W7-64 is more weird
and some people reported other faults.

> TIA,
>
> Jeff

Marco

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> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 JKLETSKY-T41 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
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> $ octave
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> octave:1> plot([1 2 3], [1 2 3])
> 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: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)
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> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Christopher Faylor? 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 but 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 = 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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