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Re: Help needed with printing bug
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Help needed with printing bug |
Date: |
Mon, 04 May 2015 10:03:55 -0400 |
> On May 4, 2015, at 9:40 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I need help fixing this bug:
>
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44916
>
> I am unable to duplicate the problem, but have narrowed it down somewhat.
> The issue seems to be that when gl2ps gathers the info it needs to draw the
> plot from OpenGL, some of the data points are not correct. Apparently
> printing worked in 3.8.2 but fails now. I tried undoing all the changes to
> the gl2ps rendering code that have been made since 3.8.2 but am told that did
> not solve the problem.
>
> I thought perhaps we had changed the options for gl2ps or OpenGL in some way
> that triggered the bug. But now I'm just clueless about what the problem
> could be, other than a driver issue, especially since the problem seems to
> appear on some systems but not others.
>
> Maybe someone else has a better plan, but the only thing I can think of now
> to debug this is to bisect and try to determine which changeset introduced
> the problem. But that will be a somewhat painful process as I'm unable to
> test whether a given changeset is good or bad myself.
>
> So, first I need someone who can duplicate the error and who is willing to
> run a simple test for me. We would do something like
>
> 1. I build a binary
> 2. You download and test it and report the result
> 3. I bisect and go to 1 until we find the bad changeset
>
> Given that there have been thousands of changes committed between 3.8.x and
> now, I guess this could take 12 iterations or so.
>
> jwe
I have a windows box which I can experiment with. I don’t know if it will
exhibit the bug, but I can try.
Ben
- Help needed with printing bug, John W. Eaton, 2015/05/04
- Re: Help needed with printing bug,
Ben Abbott <=
- Re: Help needed with printing bug, Ben Abbott, 2015/05/04
- Re: Help needed with printing bug, Ben Abbott, 2015/05/04
- Re: Help needed with printing bug, Martin Kunz, 2015/05/04
- Re: Help needed with printing bug, John W. Eaton, 2015/05/04
- Re: Help needed with printing bug, Doug Stewart, 2015/05/04
- Re: Help needed with printing bug, Martin Kunz, 2015/05/04
- Re: Help needed with printing bug, Doug Stewart, 2015/05/04
Re: Help needed with printing bug, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2015/05/04