Re: [Plplot-general] Octave driver

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2007-02-27 10:26+0100 NOEL BRUNO wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Here are my intermediate results using plplot with octave on cygwin :
> * cmake.2.4.6 used ;
> * plplot5.7.2 re-installed and compilation successfull ;
> * octave2.1.73 launched from  the cmake building directory/bindings/octave/
> with the following results :
>
> octave:1> plplot_stub ;
> octave:2> ver = plgver'
> error: No such file or directory
> error: 'plplot_octave' undefined near line 1604 column 9
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1604, column 7
> error: called from 'plgver'
> error: evaluating postfix operator ''' near line 2, column 7
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2, column 5
> octave:2> plinit ;
> error: No such file or directory
> error: 'plplot_octave' undefined near line 1604 column 9
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1895, column 1
> error: called from 'plinit'
>
>
> As complementary results, it should be noticed that :
> * gnuplot plotting works well with this cygwin/octave version
> * building the plplot.5.7.2 distribution with the same instructions, and
> using octave with it, works well on Mac Os 10.4....

We have had troubles in the past with the ever-changing octave API.  What
version of octave works for you on Mac OS X?  Could you also try version
2.1.72 of octave on Cygwin?  I know that version (although substantially
patched) works on Ubuntu Dapper.

>
> In hope you will have some ideas on how to solve these troubles,

It sounds like a real Cygwin/octave issue here, but for the purposes of
comparison could you please report the results of the standard build-tree
test for octave-2.1.72 on Cygwin?

That is, use the -DBUILD_TEST=ON option to cmake, and after the "make"
command run "ctest --verbose --tests-regex octave".

Other Plplot developers here with access to the Cygwin platform should do
the same test to attempt to verify the issue.

Alan
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