Re: Octave 3.6.4-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Michael D. Godfrey
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/11/2013 05:35 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>>
>>> The third release candidate of Octave 3.6.4 is now available from
>>> alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
>>>
>>>    6a1eae4dd9e94925c2f6fe5e2390d0df  octave-3.6.4-rc2.tar.gz
>>>
>>>    -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 18366546 Feb 11 22:13 octave-3.6.4-rc2.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Please help make the 3.6.4 release a success by building from this
>>> release candidate and reporting any problems.  We could especially use
>>> reports for Windows and OS X systems.
>>>
>>> jwe
>>
>> On Fedora 18 x86_64:
>>
>> No problem with build:
>> Summary:
>>
>>   PASS  10212
>>   FAIL      0
>>
>> and gnuplot seems OK.  But, "fltk"  has serious problems:
>> octave:1> plot(1:400)
>> XOpenIM() failed
>> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/dri/i965_dri.so
>> libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/godfrey/.drirc: No such file or
>> directory.
>> libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/godfrey/.drirc: No such file or
>> directory.
>>
>> and the plot is incomplete.  This appears to be due to a problem in
>> OpenGL.
>> For me the problem has been made worse due to switching to a newer system
>> which uses Intel graphics.  My older systems used Nvidia.
>>
>> While "fltk" has known problems, the XOpemIM() failed problem is due to
>> FC18.
>>
>
> I cannot reproduce this problem on i7-2600k ("Sandy Bridge" w/ integrated
> intel 3000 graphics) --
> perhaps you have a newer chip ("Ivy Bridge") with Intel 4000 graphics.
>
> I do have the "usual" fltk problem (broken/missing lines, see attached; the
> "print" of
> this plot looks fine though).
>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> Dmitri.
> --
>

Same problem here with fltk and Debian 7.0. Broken/missing  lines
already present in current released version.
I have an Ivy Bridge if that is of any help.