Re: gnuplot.exe hangs instead of exiting on Windows 7

[Juhász P. <pet...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 20:22 +0100, =?UTF-8?Q? Bastian_M=C3=A4rkisch ?=
wrote:
> Now that Tatsuro has provided a built of the CVS state as of March 17th,
> could somebody please confirm that the problems go away with
> that version? As I can't reproduce anything here, it's like fishing in 
> murky waters...
> 
> As the codepage switching is the only thing that specifically changed 
> the behaviour of the console, I am going to remove that from CVS 
> again.
> 

- Windows Vista:
gnuplot.exe starts with a delay (always, not just the first time), but
then it executes commands and exits normally.

- Linux + wine:
gnuplot.exe starts with a slight delay (less than one second, but
noticeable), it accepts one command then hangs.
Non-interactive mode works (e.g. wine gnuplot.exe 'plot x' or wine
gnuplot.exe -V)

- Windows 7:
This is where it gets interesting! 
If I start gnuplot.exe interactively, plot something, then exit, then it
exits normally. However, if I don't plot anything, just do "sh var" or
"exit", it hangs!
Non-interactively, 'gnuplot.exe -e "plot x"' works and exits but
'gnuplot -V' doesn't.

This is all with Tatsuro's latest binary package which does have
2011/03/17 as its last Changelog entry.


> On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 01:14:05 pm Juhász Péter wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 12:22 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> >> > On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:37:09 am Juhász Péter wrote:
> >> > > I didn't test with his previous build (I don't know where to get it).
> >> > > 
> >> > > However, I did test the current (03/23) build on a Vista system and it
> >> > > didn't exhibit this problem (it exited normally). It starts slowly,
> >> > > though: there is a 5-10 second delay at startup.
> 
> This slow start up may be related to the windows help system or fontconfig.
> Does it also start slowly if you try to start it a second time?
> 

Yes, there is a delay at every startup.

>   Bastian
> 

Péter Juhász