Re: Octave 5.2.0 release

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 1/15/20 2:07 AM, "Markus Mützel" wrote:
> 
> I installed with the w64 installer on Windows 10 and tried to run the test 
> suite. Octave closed unexpectedly with the following at the tail of 
> fntests.log:
>>>>>> processing 
>>>>>> C:\Octave\OCTAVE~2.90\mingw64\share\octave\5.1.90\etc\tests\fixed\single-index.tst
>>>>>> processing 
>>>>>> C:\Octave\OCTAVE~2.90\mingw64\share\octave\5.1.90\etc\tests\fixed\slice.tst
>>>>>> processing 
>>>>>> C:\Octave\OCTAVE~2.90\mingw64\share\octave\5.1.90\etc\tests\fixed\sparse.tst
> 
> This might be something we already fixed on default (hg id 1a75fca6ad5d, 
> mlock for the SuiteSparse functions). That change should maybe be grafted to 
> stable if possible.

Markus, thank you for testing.  This is indeed serious
(https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57435) and I confirmed today myself at
work with my MS Windows machine.

Now I create a quick & dirty build with the grafted cset and publish it on

   https://octave.space

soon.  If this helps, I create "official" 5.1.91 builds and then let the
final testing continue.

> Also, the installer appears blurry on a HiDPI screen (see attachment). 
> Compare the text in the title bar and the text inside the window.
> I don't know if there is something we can do about this or if this has to be 
> fixed upstream in NSIS.
> 
> Markus
> 

Reported at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57600.  Additionally, I build
the quick & dirty build with the following patch:


diff -r 92b6fce85f02 tools/makeinst-script.sh.in
--- a/tools/makeinst-script.sh.in       Mon Jan 13 09:54:00 2020 -0500
+++ b/tools/makeinst-script.sh.in       Wed Jan 15 12:11:56 2020 +0900
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
 XPStyle on
 InstallDir "C:\\Octave\\Octave-\${OCTAVE_VERSION}"
 Icon "\${INSTALLER_FILES}/octave-logo.ico"
+ManifestDPIAware true

 ######################################################################
 ; StrFunc usage

See if it helps or disturbs other DPI settings.

Kai