On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:26:57PM -0400, Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Andrew Ross > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I yesterday ran into the same problem with the octave bindings and today > > found svn had solved it. I checked recent commits to cairo.c and I can't > > see any explicit mention of it. I haven't tested with other languages. > > As an aside, calling plend1 instead of plend gets round the problem. > > This may give a big clue as to the cause of the problem > > Andrew, > > Yes, the problem seems to come from the freeing/releasing of > dynamically loaded libraries. Hazen and I (more Hazen than I) tracked > this down a short while ago, but the exact source of the problem is > unclear. > > The fact that it works in both the OCaml toplevel and Octave may > provide more help. In the mean time the plend1 workaround seems to > work in all cases. I have this in a lot of code locally and have not > faced any segfaults when sticking with plend1. > > Thank you for the information on Octave. I still wonder if this is a > bug in PLplot or if it is something Debian related. I have the > problem on both Debian and Ubuntu but not on Fedora.
My tests were on Ubuntu Jaunty (just released) so if is a Debian / Ubuntu issue it is an ongoing one. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
