Re: building on macOS?

[Ben Abbott]

> On Dec 18, 2018, at 23:43, Pantxo <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> bpabbott wrote
>>> On Nov 13, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Carlo De Falco &lt;
> 
>> carlo.defalco@
> 
>> &gt; wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 13 Nov 2018, at 16:34, Ben Abbott &lt;
> 
>> bpabbott@
> 
>> &gt; 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>> <open_kEClIYyW.txt>
>> Carlo,
>> 
>> The patch worked for me. I tried replacing “pause (0.1)” with “drawnow
>> ()”, but that didn’t work.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Did anyone post a bug report about this build failure? I am wondering if the
> preliminary patch for bug #55226
> (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55226) could help. Can someone try
> it out?
> 
> Pantxo

Hi Pantxo

I have not filed a bug report.

When I have time, I’ll take a look at the patch you’ve suggested and follow up.

Ben