fopen always returns fid=-1 since revision 8380

[Thomas Treichl]

Jaroslav Hajek schrieb:
> Thomas,
> 
> I guess that by 8380 you meant 8379, because 8380 in savannah is "fix
> & improve speed of diagonal matrix multiplication". Or is it the other
> way around? Please clarify.

Hi Jaroslav,

thank you for your quick answer. It was this one (8379) that I meant, you're right:

   http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ad8ed668e0a4

Now I've to say that I learned something new. I always do

   hg update -C

where '-C' stands for "-C --clean  overwrite locally modified files". I took 
8380 from my local machine repository but commited something else before locally 
(that's why I was talking about my local 8380 but meant savannah 8379).

What I would expect if I do 'hg update -C' is that 8375 in my local repository 
is thrown to nirvana - but it's still there. Now I've got another question, 
which hg subcommand must I take to completely overwrite all my changes with the 
savannah sources? Is there any subcommand, or must I always clone a repository 
to get the original files?

> Did you rerun ./autogen.sh to regenerate the configure scripts? That
> is probably necessary, because the old definition
> of macro OCTAVE_LOCAL_BUFFER was directly in config.h.

Twice a year I forget about 'autogen.sh'. This time I did forget about it, too. 
I also cloned the savannah repository and created a new one on my computer. Then 
the problem disappeared.

> In any case OCTAVE_LOCAL_BUFFER now *should* work with bools (as
> opposed to the old one), therefore your patch is not the right way to
> do (unless we become really desperate).

Yes right.

> If the answer to the above question is yes, please check for
> HAVE_DYNAMIC_AUTO_ARRAYS in config.h.

My lines in config.h look like

   /* Define if C++ supports dynamic auto arrays */
   #define HAVE_DYNAMIC_AUTO_ARRAYS 1

No need to set it '0', right?

> If it's defined, please try disabling it and compile again (will
> recompile just about everything apart from libcruft, unfortunately). I
> suspect that dynamic stack arrays can be buggy with some compilers.
> What's your compiler, anyway?

A self made f2c/fort77 combination together with gcc/g++ 4.0.1.

Sorry for the noise, thanks for your tips and best regards,

   Thomas