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cygwin octave-forge bugs
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Quentin Spencer |
Subject: |
cygwin octave-forge bugs |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:49:11 -0600 |
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Hello,
I recently tried out the latest cygwin octave packages, and they are
very nice--many thanks to those who made them possible. I have found a
couple of bugs in the octave-forge package (the latest one, I don't
remember the release number), and since I'm not sure what the correct
forum for bug reporting in the cygwin packages is, I'm sending them here:
1. Missing dependency.
When I try to use the octave-forge 'legend' command, I get the error
"kpsexpand: command not found". It appears this function is provided by
the tetex-bin package. After installing it, the error went away
(although it was replaced by another error that I think is a bug in the
script itself, which has since been updated in CVS).
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
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- cygwin octave-forge bugs,
Quentin Spencer <=