Re: octave in bg ????

[Daniel Heiserer]

address@hidden schrieb:
> 
> Daniel Heiserer skryf:
> 
> > whenever I try to run octve in the background, octave starts sleeping
> > and
> > does not continue:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > shell> octave -q  test_run_1.m &
> > [1] 491322
> > [1]  + Suspended (tty output)        octave -q test_run_1.m
> > shell> ps
> >         PID TTY     TIME CMD
> >      479611 ttyq17  0:00 octave-2.
> >      492557 ttyq17  0:00 ps
> >      477309 ttyq17  0:02 tcsh
> >
> > shell> uname -a
> > IRIX64 caek56 6.5 04191226 IP28
> > shell> octave --version
> > GNU Octave, version 2.0.14 (mips-sgi-irix6.4)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> test_run_1.m doesn't do anything untoward, such as using the 'prompt'
> function, I presume?

? of course not! it is just a 3 line script load/norm/save

> It should continue if you type 'fg', which puts it in foreground again.

Sure it continues, if I put it in FG again, but that does not help me if
I 
have to run it in the bg.

> (Although I seem to lose the keyboard echo, i.e. I can't see what I type
> but Octave does read it and react to it.)
> 
> Octave in background, given a script input file as above, works
> in 2.0.16 and in 2.1.30 under Red Hat Linux on a Pentium.  By now,
> 2.1.30 is pretty stable -- why not upgrade?

I work on IRIX64 and octave does not always compile without problems
on this platform.
I have 2.0.14, 2.0.16 does not compile wihtout errors so does 2.1.31 
which I have also.

#---------------------------------------------
 `/GNU/usr/src/packages/BUILD/octave-2.1.31/liboctave'
c++ -c  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob
-I../glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
-fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall oct-time.cc -o oct-time.o
oct-time.cc: In method `void octave_time::stamp()':
oct-time.cc:112: aggregate `struct timeval tp' has incomplete type and
cannot be initialized
oct-time.cc:117: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
gmake[2]: *** [oct-time.o] Error 1
#---------------------------------------------


daniel



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