Bug#408188: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#408188: octave2.1-forge: legend doesn't wait long enough for gnuplot

[Thomas Weber]

Hi Reuben, 


Am Mittwoch, den 24.01.2007, 00:02 +0000 schrieb Reuben Thomas:
> Package: octave2.1-forge
> Version: 2006.03.17+dfsg1-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> When calling legend on a gnuplot diagram, legend.m times out.
> Increasing the number at line 186 of legend.m from 20 to 100 makes it
> work for me, but I imagine that on other (slower?) systems, this won't
> be sufficient and there's a more general problem.
> 
> I found a mailing list message about a similar race condition with the
> test that the file has been written directly below, but nothing about
> this. In any case, I didn't find a solution for either problem.
> 
> http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/octave/lists/archive//bug-octave.2004/msg00959.html

Can you try the octave2.9-forge package? It can be installed in parallel
to octave2.1-forge. You must call "octave2.9" afterwards.

	Thomas