Re: MXE Octave: GUI doesn't load

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/28/2013 05:10 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 27 June 2013 14:36, Michael Goffioul<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Then I think your problem is the bug in gnulib that has been reported here
> > [1]. If you follow the thread, you can find a workaround to apply in gnulib
> > source code (isatty.c). The problem is that gnulib fails to detect stdin as
> > being a console under Win8 due to hard-coded assumptions, which are not
> > valid anymore. To my knowledge, no fix has been applied to gnulib (they're
> > apparently waiting until someone external to gnulib step up and produce a
> > git changeset).
>
> Why don't we just apply the change to our gnulib clone?

That would be OK with me as a temporary fix, but I would prefer to avoid 
maintaining local patches as much as possible.  I know that we currently 
have many local patches for dependencies that we build but I would also 
like to try to push those upstream if we can.

jwe