Re: tests in log-scale plots

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Kai Habel wrote:

> Ben Abbott <address@hidden> schrieb:
> 
>> On Sep 6, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Kai Habel wrote:
>> 
>>> There is still a problem for Ben's MacOS setup. It is not clear whether its 
>>> a general MacOS problem or if it is something specific for Ben's 
>>> installation. I think he is currently changing his setup, maybe it works 
>>> then.
>> 
>> I can confirm that the commands below cause a core-dump on both MacOS 10.6.8 
>> using Fink dependencies, and on MacOS 10.7.1 using MacPorts dependencies.
>> 
>> For 10.7.1 and MacPorts, I see ...
>> 
>>>> graphics_toolkit fltk ;
>>>> figure (1, 'visible', 'off')
>>>> panic: Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
>> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
>> save to `octave-core' complete
>> 
>> For 10.6.8 and Fink, I see ...
>> 
>> octave:1> graphics_toolkit fltk ;
>> octave:2> figure (1, 'visible', 'off')
>> octave:3> panic: Bus error -- stopping myself...
>> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
>> save to `octave-core' complete
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Ben is that with the same OpenGl driver? Which one is it?
> Kai

Apple's OpenGL libs are different for MacOS 10.6 and 10.7.

        http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/

I'm not familiar with the details.

Ben