[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51772] Errors when running compare_plot_demos with gnuplot toolkit on Windows

[Dan Sebald]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #51772 (project octave):

OK, so I understand a little more now.  There an error message from gnuplot
(line 0: warning:...) and an error message from ghostscript (GPL Ghostscript
9.16:...) which is expecting to find the file created by gnuplot but is
missing because of the "plot area too small" issue.  There is that.

Then there is a more pressing issue that the ghostscript failure to find a
file is causing Octave to hang on your system.  If Octave wouldn't hang, and
instead just recognize a demo/test failure, it would be consistent with old
behavior.  (I still don't see how ghostscript is launched with the
demo('axis') command.)

Could you recreate the bigger issue with a more simple command?  For example,
try something like 

system('gv nonexistantfile.png');

Again, I'm not 100% sure I understand exactly what the manifestation is.  I
can reproduce the gnuplot error by adding a third line to the title in the
axis.m file, but nothing hangs here.

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