Re: Octave 5.2.0 release

[Orion Poplawski]

On 2/2/20 8:52 PM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> On 2/1/20 7:43 PM, "Markus Mützel" wrote:
> > Am 31. Januar 2020 um 10:01 Uhr schrieb "Kai Torben Ohlhus":
> > > Tag MXE repository 9057112edb8e:
> > >
> > > [ ] @jwe,others?
> >
> > I added the tag here:
> > https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/40f2726a5981
> >
> > Markus
>
>
> Thank you Markus.
>
>
> On 2/1/20 9:41 AM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> > On 2/1/20 9:25 AM, Mike Miller wrote:
> > > [...] On the build server, can you try running with Xvfb if
> > > you have that available? For example
> > >
> > >      xvfb-run -a octave --eval "available_graphics_toolkits ()"
> > >      xvfb-run -a make all  ## to build doc/interpreter images
> >
> > Thanks for the hint Mike.
> Sorry for the delay.  Using `xvfb-run` turned out to be more difficult
> than I expected on OpenSUSE.  While creating the figures, my build dies
> with messages like the following.  A moderate google&try&error did not
> fix the problem with my system.  I simply do not know enough about this
> tool yet.
>
>    xvbf-run ==> libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to create any config
>
> Finally, at my University, I opened a VNC connection to that build
> server and things "work".  Figures are generated by "gl2ps" rather than
> "gnuplot".

FWIW - In Fedora I've moved away from xvfb-run and to using the dummy 
driver because of better graphics support.  You might want to take a 
look at:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/octave/tree/master


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