[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#408188: octave2.1-forge: legend doesn't wait long enough for gnuplot

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>]

Package: octave2.1-forge
Version: 2006.03.17+dfsg1-3
Severity: normal

When calling legend on a gnuplot diagram, legend.m times out.
Increasing the number at line 186 of legend.m from 20 to 100 makes it
work for me, but I imagine that on other (slower?) systems, this won't
be sufficient and there's a more general problem.

I found a mailing list message about a similar race condition with the
test that the file has been written directly below, but nothing about
this. In any case, I didn't find a solution for either problem.

http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/octave/lists/archive//bug-octave.2004/msg00959.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages octave2.1-forge depends on:
ii  fftw3                    3.1.2-1         library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.6.ds1-8     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcln4                  1.1.13-2        Class Library for Numbers (C++)
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.1.1-21      GCC support library
ii  libgfortran1             4.1.1-21        Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libginac1.3c2a           1.3.5-3         The GiNaC symbolic framework (runt
ii  libgmp3c2                2:4.2.1+dfsg-4  Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libgraphicsmagick++1     1.1.7-10        format-independent image processin
ii  libgraphicsmagick1       1.1.7-10        format-independent image processin
ii  libgsl0                  1.8-2           GNU Scientific Library (GSL) -- li
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 [ 1.6.5-3         Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6                  1:1.0.1-2       X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-13           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5              5.5-5           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libnetcdf3               3.6.1-1         An interface for scientific data a
ii  libpcre3                 6.7-1           Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.15~beta5-1  PNG library - runtime
ii  libqhull5                2003.1-2        Calculate convex hulls and related
ii  libreadline5             5.2-2           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6                   1:1.0.1-3       X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6               4.1.1-21        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.0.3-4       X11 client-side library
ii  octave2.1                1:2.1.73-13     GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-8           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-13      compression library - runtime

octave2.1-forge recommends no packages.

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