On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:21 PM, A.R. Burgers wrote: > LS, > > with the current octave, I get this octave strcat > error on plot, both with xterm and the dumb terminal. > Same error on two different windows XP systems. > Same error with libstdc++6 and libgfortran3 from cygwin-ports gcc 4.5.2-2 > > Teun > > $ octave > GNU Octave, version 3.4.0 > Copyright (C) 2011 John W. Eaton and others. > > [snip] > > octave:1> t=(0:0.1:2*pi); > octave:2> plot(t,sin(t)) > error: Invalid call to strcat. Correct usage is: > > -- Function File: strcat (S1, S2, ...) > > error: called from: > error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/help/print_usage.m at line 87, column 5 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/strings/strcat.m at line 92, column 5 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_get_var__.m at line 113, > column 11 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m at line 40, > column 18 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m at line 167, > column 19 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 86, > column 5 > octave:3> quit > > BURGERS@P4949 ~ > $ echo $TERM $DISPLAY > xterm :0 > > BURGERS@P4949 ~ > $ cygcheck -c octave liblapack0 cygwin libqrupdate0 libgfortran3 libstdc++ > gnuplot > Cygwin Package Information > Package Version Status > cygwin 1.7.9-1 OK > gnuplot 4.4.0-1 OK > libgfortran3 4.3.4-4 OK > liblapack0 3.2.2-2 OK > libqrupdate0 1.1.1-1 OK > octave 3.4.0-3 OK >
could you just check if reversing to cygwin 1.7.8-1 solve the problem ? I also noted the same problem this morning, but it was puzzling and NOT really repetitive. Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
