[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#589303: Bug#589303: Bug#589303: Bug#589303: octave3.2: crashes reproducibly

[Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 06:28:21PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:41:56PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > On 16 July 2010 10:43, Francesco Potortì <Potorti@isti.cnr.it> wrote:
> > > octave:1> pkg global_list /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2/octave_packages;
> > >
> > > octave:2> pkg prefix /usr/share/octave/packages/3.2 /usr/lib/octave/packages/3.2;
> > >
> > > octave:3> pkg load communications
> > > warning: mark_as_command is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave
> > >
> > [snip]
> > > octave:5> rand;sum(rand("state",1));
> > > panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> > > attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> > > save to `octave-core' complete
> > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > I can't reproduce this on the development sources. I guess we can just
> > wait for Jaroslav to make a new Octave release and package that?
> 
> Jaroslav has stated that he won't make another release in the 3.2
> series. And last time I asked about plans for 3.4, I didn't get any
> meaningful answer:
> http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2010-May/016038.html

I had a look at what I _think_ fixes this issue in the development source
changeset:   10544:9961fc022d9d
user:        Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
date:        Fri Apr 23 11:23:43 2010 +0200
summary:     fix assignment to non-existing variables and octave_value::assign

The diff doesn't apply cleanly and I'm not sure it wouldn't change the
ABI. So, unless someone comes up with a patch, this bug will stay in the
3.2 series.

	Thomas