Re: building on macOS?

[Ben Abbott]

> On Nov 13, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Carlo De Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 13 Nov 2018, at 16:34, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> The readline trouble went away after I pull, update, make.
>> 
>> Running gui, then plotting, and existing produces the seg-fault.
>> 
>> I must have made a mistake earlier.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> 
> I just built b2a96efc88eb+ if I run Octave from the command line without the 
> --gui option,
> the following causes a crash :
> 
> $ ./run-octave
>>> plot (randn(3))
>>> exit
> fatal: caught signal Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
> Segmentation fault: 11
> 
> while this doesn't :
> 
> $ ./run-octave
>>> plot (randn(3))
>>> close
>>> exit
> 
> and indeed, with the attached patch applied the build works without errors 
> for me.
> notice that the "pause (.1)" seems to be required to completely avoid the 
> crash.
> 
> c.
> 
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Carlo,

The patch worked for me. I tried replacing “pause (0.1)” with “drawnow ()”, but 
that didn’t work.

Ben