From help-request at octave dot org Mon Nov 14 22:35:49 2005 Subject: Re: cygwin octave-forge bugs From: Paul Kienzle To: antiskid56-octave at yahoo dot com Cc: help at octave dot org Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:34:16 -0500 On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:21 AM, James R. Phillips wrote: > --- Quentin Spencer wrote: >> 2. Core dump in the "waitbar" function. >> >> Calling this function with any arguments I tried resulted in a core >> dump. Based on my knowledge of the code (which I wrote) when the >> function is called from a smart terminal, it tries to get information >> about the terminal and use fancy escape sequences to produce a >> reverse-video progress bar across the terminal. If these features are >> unavailable, it defaults to a simpler version of the function that >> should work in more different environments. I don't know exactly what >> is >> causing the problem, but it may be possible to get the simplified >> version of the function to work by overriding the settings that are >> detected by configure. >> >> -Quentin >> > > I would like Paul's comment on this. I would like to do a new cygwin > octave-forge release soon (when the archive is in a releasable state), > but I > don't know if this problem will be addressed. Try compiling it without -DUSE_TERM to see if it crashes. It should be easy enough to force USE_TERM to be false for cygwin. - Paul ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------