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 > > > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 JKLETSKY-T41 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin > > $ octave > GNU Octave, version 3.4.0 > Copyright (C) 2011 John W. Eaton and others. > This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions. > There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type `warranty'. > > Octave was configured for "i686-pc-cygwin". > > Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org. > > Please contribute if you find this software useful. > For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html > > Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports. > > For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'. > > 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) > > > 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, ...) > > > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
