Re: plot bug with redhat 8.0

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:23:48PM -0700, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> I confirm the observation (7 plots, 8 keys) on octave 2.1.39 and 
> gnuplot 3.8i (cvs snapshot of Sept 11, 2002). Both compiled from
> scratch on RedHat 8.0.

Weird. As John remarked, this does of course work as it should on Debian.

What happens when you run the regression tests after building octave? Also,
try saving what is passed to gnuplot. I.e., after

address@hidden:~> octave2.1
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octave2.1:1> gnuplot_binary
gnuplot_binary = gnuplot
octave2.1:2> gnuplot_binary ="tee /tmp/file.txt | gnuplot";
octave2.1:3> s=randn(10);
octave2.1:4> plot(s);
octave2.1:5> quit

I can see examine the file that was generated by interjecting tee(1):

address@hidden:~> cat /tmp/fi
file.txt    filet3IzVI
address@hidden:~> cat /tmp/file.txt
set data style lines
set nologscale
set nopolar
pl '/tmp/oct-P4VqHk' t "line 1",\
   '/tmp/oct-43qU7u' t "line 2",\
   '/tmp/oct-3yAwxF' t "line 3",\
   '/tmp/oct-kVAuWP' t "line 4",\
   '/tmp/oct-fejxp0' t "line 5",\
   '/tmp/oct-smPERa' t "line 6",\
   '/tmp/oct-1rK8il' t "line 7",\
   '/tmp/oct-IDmyFv' t "line 8",\
   '/tmp/oct-RXfC1F' t "line 9",\
   '/tmp/oct-kch2mQ' t "line 10"

quit


Dirk

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