Re: 3.6.1 mingw binaries for testing

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:00 AM, tom yengst <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> easy to download, unzip and run on netbook running Windows 7 Home 32-bit
>> (mingw installed)
>> One problem that I had was plotting - it would just hang on something
>> simple like "plot(1:10,1:2:20,'.-')"
>>
>
>>It might be related to the fltk graphics related problems reported since
>>3.4.2 which are still there. I have faced such problems on one of the two
>>systems I am usually testing - XP SP3, core2 cpu (my other system win 7 x64,
>>core i3-540 is much less sensitive to thease fltk graphics issues).
>
>>Try running graphics_toolkit('gnuplot') just after startup and se if it
>>helps.
>
> This was a first time startup issue. After executing a plot command, I
> waited for ~ 3 minutes before the plot appeared. Afterwards, plots
> appeared immediately after execution.
>
> startup / exit / restart - plots still come up immediately. Some sort
> of setup must have been going on during the initial plot command.
> Annoying, but not a show stopper.

It's probably fontconfig that is rebuilding the font database. This
can take a while.

Michael.