Re: cannot plot with octave 3.4.0 and windows 7

[Marco atzeri]

On 6/6/2011 4:06 PM, George Barrick wrote:
> Re: cannot plot with octave 3.4.0 and windows 7
>
>                             2011.06.06.14:03:53 UT
>
> Hello Eirik and Marco,
>
>        I have encountered that same difficulty that
> Eirik is describing with the cygwin-1.7.9-1.  I was
> getting a failure of octave to generate plots.  I
> cannot be more specific at the moment as I am
> unwilling to again install the 1.7.9-1 and track
> through the errors that octave generates when I
> attempt a plot.

Hi George,
plot in octave-3.4.0 with cygwin 1.7.9 is
broken for all windows version (XP, W7, Vista)

1.7.8 was the only solution until recent cygwin snapshots.

>        Anyway, I _do_ have something positive to
> report.  Unlike Eirik, I am using cygwin under
> WinXP-SP3, though I can say that the latest
> cygwin1-20110606.dll does solve the problem.
> I simply followed Marco's instructions surrounding
> the renaming and copying of the cygwin1.dll, and
> it works.  The octave-3.4.0 spins up plots in the
> usual way when using cygwin1-20110606.dll as the
> cygwin1.dll.  I did not have to re-install anything,
> or perform the rebaseall from the ash-shell.
>
>        I am guessing that cygwin1-20110606.dll or
> its descendants should overcome this little problem
> when released into the wild (at least for WinXP-SP3).

Correct. For XP I was already aware

https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2011-June/046121.html

Now I will appreciate a confirmation for the other MS Windows systems 
(W7, Vista).
Eirik could you test on W7 ?


> George                 g_barrick_at_walsh_dot_edu

Regards
Marco