Re: building on macOS?

[Ben Abbott]

> On Nov 5, 2018, at 7:18 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 5, 2018, at 3:53 AM, Carlo De Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5 Nov 2018, at 03:41, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I tried generating a txt file manually. No error.
>>> 
>>> function image_as_txt (d, nm)
>>> fid = fopen (fullfile (d, [nm ".txt"]), "wt");
>>> fputs (fid, "\n");
>>> fputs (fid, "+---------------------------------+\n");
>>> fputs (fid, "| Image unavailable in text mode. |\n");
>>> fputs (fid, "+---------------------------------+\n");
>>> fclose (fid);
>>> endfunction
>>> image_as_txt (‘./doc/interpreter/', 'foo')
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Ben, 
>> 
>> I am still on HighSierra and I get something similar to you.
>> 
>> If I run make I get a failure :
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> /bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path 
>> /Users/carlo/Documents/_Programmi/Miei/C/octave/build-default/../octave/doc/interpreter/
>>  --eval "geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'delaunay', 'txt');"
>> fatal: caught signal Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
>> make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/delaunay.txt] Segmentation fault: 11
>> make[2]: *** Deleting file `doc/interpreter/delaunay.txt'
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> If I try to run the same command as shown in the make output manually the 
>> command works :
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> $ ./run-octave --no-gui
>> GNU Octave, version 5.0.0
>> Copyright (C) 2018 John W. Eaton and others.
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>> 
>> Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0".
>> 
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>> 
>>>> addpath (canonicalize_file_name ("../octave/doc/interpreter/"))
>>>> geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'delaunay', 'txt')
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> but then I get a segmentation fault when quitting Octave :
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> exit
>> fatal: caught signal Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
>> Segmentation fault: 11
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> HTH,
>> c.
> 
> Thanks Carlo.
> 
> I recall that I often had to “make” several times to complete the docs.
> Perhaps something changed recently to cause the segfault, or something 
> changed to cause the image output to be deleted.
> 
> Looks like the deletion is part of the build process. Buried in make process 
> I assume. Is this something we control?
> 
> Ben

This problem does not occur for Octave 4.4.1

Ben