Re: Mark OSMesa experimental for 4.2 release?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
>From: Dmitri A. Sergatskov 
>To: Andreas Weber  
>Cc: Octave-Maintainers 
>Date: 2016/9/4, Sun 23:54
>Subject: Re: Mark OSMesa experimental for 4.2 release?
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>On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Andreas Weber  wrote:
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>>One problem would then be to build the documentation which would require
>>visible figures or using gnuplot.
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>​To make figures invisiable (for doc build) could we run octave through xvfb?
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>I just tried 
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>​xvfb-run -s "-screen 0 640x480x24" ./run-octave --no-gui < t1.m
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>where t1.m is just
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>plot(randn(10))
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>print t1.pdf
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>and that seems to work.
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>>-- Andy
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On dev. branch build on Ubunutu 14.04 amd64 with Nvidia
 
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libGL.so make 


give

libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast


at each generation of graph in the off-screen but given graph has no problem.

I think that it is not necessary  "Mark OSMesa experimental for 4.2 release".

For bug osmesa in ubuntu 14.04 (for Mint?), one can build easily the osmesa 
from source
according to instruction the below
http://wiki.octave.org/OSMesa


Tatsuro