[Pkg-octave-devel] Dynare FTBFS / Octave+gnuplot bug

[Thomas Weber]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:06:33PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> The new Dynare package randomly FTBFS, as can be seen on kfreebsd-amd64
> where it failed the first time and succeeded the second time, and it
> failed two times on kfreebsd-i386, while it succeeded on the other
> architectures.
> 
> The problem is rather intricate and looks like a race condition between
> multiple instances of Octave and gnuplot.

I don't think gnuplot is the culprit. I can reproduce this problem even
when using unlink() instead of delete() and without any call to plot().


> octave foo1.m && octave foo2.m

This is strange. It seems the first octave instane exits before the file
is actually removed ...

	Thomas