Re: octave mingw problem

[Kai Habel]

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> Datum: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:47:46 +0000
> Von: Michael Goffioul <address@hidden>
> An: Kai Habel <address@hidden>
> CC: Octave Maintainers List <address@hidden>
> Betreff: Re: octave mingw problem

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Kai Habel <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am trying to get octave (default and gui) running under mingw (32bit).
> I
> > have compiled all dependencies and octave myself, but now I am stuck.
> When I
> > run octave (installed and ./run-octave) it quits immediately after the
> first
> > command prompt is printed. But when I run 'make check' the test suite
> runs
> > through with about 20 failures of ~1000 tests.
> > I can run octave under gdb. I have stepped trough octave_main() - see
> below.
> > Do you have any ideas where to look at?
> >
> > BTW I see the same behavior when compiling 3.4.3, so I suspect the
> problem
> > to be on my side.
> 
> Maybe readline library is mis-compiled.
> 
> Michael.

It seems you are always right on target ;-)
I have recompiled using the --disable-readline switch for now, and can start 
both octave and octave-gui. Attached is a octave gui screenshot.
BTW what is the gui status on MacOS? Is someone working on that?

Kai

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