Re: 3.2.3 RC1

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

> But then calls to strftime might segfault, as numerous bugs have been 
> reported on this.
> 
> See the thread at 
> http://www.nabble.com/%22dir%22-crashing-oactve-3.2.0-mingw32-td24234760.html
> for a fix for the link error.

I know it

Without the patch below, my octave does not crash at all and clear all works 
correct.
See below
  
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octave.exe:1> clear all
octave.exe:2> A=rand(5)
A =

   0.798582   0.421041   0.055617   0.347532   0.638430
   0.990263   0.117516   0.065540   0.281049   0.366005
   0.955282   0.662246   0.632050   0.749596   0.108140
   0.256726   0.580323   0.349829   0.804008   0.236990
   0.228088   0.705807   0.279213   0.447449   0.014671

octave.exe:3> eigs(A,2)
ans =

   2.15348
   0.43633

octave.exe:4> clear all
octave.exe:5> A
error: `A' undefined near line 5 column 1
octave.exe:5>
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> I also ran into some issues with the newly relased packages. I tried to 
> cirumvent it by *not* using the "mingw32" versions, rather than the 
> "msys" versions.
> This is not what's suggested, but it worked for me, at least up to now.

Now the latest Msys works well, after ./autogen.sh executed with the 
'configure.in' is modified.

Thanks

Tatsuro

--- Benjamin Lindner <address@hidden> wrote:

> Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > Sorry!
> > The error comes from two origin.
> > The patch
> > http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/69d05d1a63b9
> > --- a/configure.in  Fri Jun 26 21:12:09 2009 +0100
> > +++ b/configure.in  Thu Jul 09 15:04:34 2009 -0400
> > @@ -1654,8 +1654,8 @@
> >  esac
> >  
> >  case "$canonical_host_type" in
> > -  *-*-msdosmsvc)
> > -    ## The %T format specifier for strftime is reportedly broken,
> > +  *-*-msdosmsvc | *-*-mingw*)
> > +    ## The %T and %e format specifiers for strftime are not implemented
> >      ## so use our version.  We could use an actual configure test
> >      ## for this.
> >    ;;
> > The reversing this patch is necesarry for my case.
> 
> 
> 
> > causes error at the link.
> > So I rewrote  the configure.in.  Therefore autoconf was executed.
> > 
> > In addition, autoconf for my msys seemed to be broken.
> > I have update the latest Msys-1.0.11 (Sat Jul 18 2009 ).
> 
> 
> benjamin
> 
> 
> 


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