Re: [Plplot-general] plplot-octave usage

[Valery P. <pi...@is...>]

Dear Alan

Here is my report,

First I tryied the way which you recommended. I rebuilt plplot from
tarball plplot-5.3.0.cvs.20040324.tar.gz.  I got  the same segmentation 
error .

Then I downloaded the cvs tree and again rebuilt  the library, and found 
that everything's tip-top (ok!). So something was wrong with version
2004032.

best rgds,
Valery
 

Right now, The bug (or something like this)  is
Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2004-04-03 13:32+0900 Valery Pipin wrote:
>
>> Dear Alan
>>
>> Thanks very much for the help. My feeling is that my code is ok
>> and it works on plplot-5.3.0-2(debian sarge)
>> Please,  find archive in attachment.
>>
>> Best rgds
>> Valery
>
>
> Hi Valery:
>
> Both versions of your code work here on my Debian stable system with
> yplot-1.1.2 and the April 1st cvs version of PLplot.  I assume you are 
> using
> that version of yplot and the March 24 version of PLplot that you are 
> using
> should differ little from mine.
>
> When I remove the commentary from co.i, everything is fine, and the 
> plot is
> more detailed with no error messages.  I also ran both versions of co.i
> using valgrind to make sure there were no memory management problems 
> (which
> possibly could lead to a hidden error on my system and a segfault on 
> yours
> depending on the history of the memory in use).  It turns out there are
> absolutely no memory management problems so we can eliminate that 
> possible
> explanation of our differing results.
>
> So I cannot easily verify on my system the bug that you have found.  What
> that means is there is probably some subtle difference between our 
> systems
> that produces the yplot (or PLplot) error on yours and not on mine so to
> pursue this further we will have to do a lot of additional testing to 
> narrow
> down the cause of the problem.
>
> If I understand your message you are using the Debian unstable 
> packages for
> PLplot.  It is unlikely but still possible there are some problems 
> with that
> packaging.  To test that, try uninstalling it (apt-get --purge remove
> pkgname), and then do an ordinary build of 
> plplot-5.3.0.cvs.20040324.tar.gz
> taken from http://plplot.sourceforge.net/cvs-tarball/.  Before the build,
> please check there are no transmission errors when you download that 
> tarball
> by using gpg --verify plplot-5.3.0.cvs.20040324.tar.gz.asc (That detached
> signature file for plplot-5.3.0.cvs.20040324.tar.gz can also be 
> downloaded
> from the same place.)
>
> Let me know how it goes with the pure tarball approach.  If you still get
> the same error, then I will try the pure tarball approach here also, 
> and you
> may want to try other systems as well to test the possibility there is a
> system bug (gcc compiler or whatever) you are running into for the Debian
> unstable version that won't be present for other systems.
>
> Good luck, and let me know how it goes.
>
> Alan
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