Re: R: octave 3.0.4 rc5

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Feb-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Marco Atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
| >
| > --- Mar 24/2/09, Jaroslav Hajek  ha scritto:
| >
| >> Da: Jaroslav Hajek
| >> Oggetto: octave 3.0.4 rc5
| >> A: "octave maintainers mailing list" <address@hidden>
| >> Data: Martedì 24 febbraio 2009, 08:21
| >> hi all,
| >>
| >> the octave 3.0.4 rc5 tarballs available at the usual
| >> location:
| >> http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~hajej2am/ulozna/octave/
| >>
| >> Hopefully this is the final RC, because I think the regular
| >> builders
| >> reported success even with RC4; still, a couple of
| >> important fixes
| >> were added so I recommend trying again if possible.
| >>
| >> 3.0.4 will almost surely close the 3.0.x series.
| >>
| >> cheers
| >>
| >> --
| >> RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
| >
| > Hi Jaroslav,
| > On cygwin all test are passed.
| >
| > The issue on plots reported by Tatsuro
| > 
https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009-February/010946.html
| >
| > is still present.
| >
| > Regards
| > Marco
| >
| 
| I see. I haven't noticed a fix in that thread, however, and I don't
| know how to solve the issue; so unless someone supplies a fix very
| quickly, this will stay unfixed in 3.0.4.

Please don't release 3.0.4 with this bug.  It can be exposed with
something as simple as

  subplot(111);
  clf
  plot ([1,2], [2,3]);

With a freshly built copy of Octave from the release-3-0-x archive, I
see

  octave:1>   subplot(111);
  octave:2>   clf
  octave:3>   plot ([1,2], [2,3]);
  error: axes: expecting argument to be axes handle
  error: evaluating if command near line 46, column 5
  error: evaluating if command near line 30, column 3
  error: called from `axes' in file 
`/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/plot/axes.m'
  error: axes: expecting argument to be axes handle
  error: evaluating if command near line 46, column 5
  error: evaluating if command near line 30, column 3
  error: called from `axes' in file 
`/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/plot/axes.m'
  error: called from `plot' in file 
`/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/plot/plot.m'

Removing the call to subplot results in a different error:

  octave:1>   clf
  error: delete: expecting argument to be a filename or graphics handle
  error: evaluating if command near line 32, column 5
  error: evaluating if command near line 31, column 3
  error: called from `delete' in file 
`/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/miscellaneous/delete.m'
  error: called from `clf' in file 
`/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/plot/clf.m'
  octave:1>   plot ([1,2], [2,3]);

So I think it is HIGHLY likely that this will be noticed by someone...

jwe