On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:25 PM, A.R. Burgers wrote: > Op 31-3-2011 22:44, marco atzeri schreef: >> >> 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. > > Your hunch was right, downgrading to 1.7.8-1 solves it > > Teun >
it seems caused by a change between cygwin snapshots 20110308 and 20110309 Corinna, gcf Have we catch a fhandler / pipe special case ? 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
