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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize pro
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Mike Miller |
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions |
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Fri, 01 May 2015 14:24:13 +0000 |
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Update of bug #44978 (project octave):
Category: Configuration and Build System => Plotting with
gnuplot
Item Group: None => Incorrect Result
Status: None => Confirmed
Summary: configure script does not fail to recognize problems
with gnuplot version => gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older
gnuplot versions
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Follow-up Comment #1:
Confirmed, I've been seeing this for a long time and use a self-compiled
gnuplot 4.4 or 4.6 on CentOS 5 machines when I need it.
I think a run-time check would be better than a configure-time check, as you
said it can be changed at run-time to use a different gnuplot executable. A
configure-time check might be useful for example if you are trying to build
the docs. But a run-time check would be needed for interactive use regardless.
Retitling, hope you're ok with that.
A new private function to validate if gnuplot can do some feature that reveals
whether it is a working version or not?
The strcat error is in the _gnuplot_get_var_ private function. It is expected
that gnuplot will always return a string, but the older version errors on the
expression, returns nothing, and Octave gets nothing back when it reads back
from the pipe.
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] configure script does not fail to recognize problems with gnuplot version, Carnë Draug, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions,
Mike Miller <=
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Carnë Draug, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Mike Miller, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Rik, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Mike Miller, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Michael Godfrey, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Rik, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Mike Miller, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Mike Miller, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Michael Godfrey, 2015/05/01
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44978] gnuplot toolkit fails to recognize problems with older gnuplot versions, Dan Sebald, 2015/05/01