gnuplot not working in RHEL4 32 bit

[kelvin-2]

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I have tried recompiling numerous times but the results have been consistenly unsatisfying.  It should be noted that I am able to successfully install and plot on a 64 bit machine with RHEL4.  Here are the error messages - does anyone know where to look or what might be preventing the tool from working with gnuplot?

 

using octave-3.2.2 with gnuplot 4.3.0.

 

bones:octave-3.2.2 >run-octave

warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!

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octave:1> plot(1:10)

error: get: invalid handle (= 1.79769e+308)

error: called from:

error:   /z/users/kmccollough/projects/octave-3.2.2/scripts/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 57, column 9

error:   /z/users/kmccollough/projects/octave-3.2.2/scripts/plot/plot.m at line 178, column 18

octave:1> __gnuplot_version__

ans = 4.3.0

octave:2>

 

 

Thanks,

 

kelvin

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[John W. Eaton-3]

On 31-Aug-2009, Kelvin McCollough wrote:

| I have tried recompiling numerous times but the results have been consistenly unsatisfying.  It should be noted that I am able to successfully install and plot on a 64 bit machine with RHEL4.  Here are the error messages - does anyone know where to look or what might be preventing the tool from working with gnuplot?
|
| using octave-3.2.2 with gnuplot 4.3.0.
|
| bones:octave-3.2.2 >run-octave
| warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!

This is likely your problem.

See this thread:

  https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2009-August/015895.html

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[alynghy]

The problem is solved on RHEL 5.3 with the same errors :

1) Remove gnuplot from redhat :

yum erase gnuplot

2) Remove libraries blas/lapack from redhat :

yum erase lapack
yum erase blas

3) Remove oldies :

yum erase compat-*
yum erase compat-lib*

4) Compile the last gnuplot and lapack :

cd gnuplot-4.2.5
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

AND

cd lapack-3.2.1
cp make.inc.example make.inc
make blaslib
make all
cp blas_LINUX.a /usr/local/lib/libblas.a
cp lapack_LINUX.a /usr/local/lib/liblapack.a

5) Compile octave :

cd octave-3.2.2
./configure --with-blas=/usr/local/lib  --with-lapack=/usr/local/lib --enable-static LIBS=-lpthread
make
make install

Best regards,
Benjamin

kelvin-2 wrote:

I have tried recompiling numerous times but the results have been consistenly unsatisfying.  It should be noted that I am able to successfully install and plot on a 64 bit machine with RHEL4.  Here are the error messages - does anyone know where to look or what might be preventing the tool from working with gnuplot?

using octave-3.2.2 with gnuplot 4.3.0.

bones:octave-3.2.2 >run-octave
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!

...

octave:1> plot(1:10)
error: get: invalid handle (= 1.79769e+308)
error: called from:
error:   /z/users/kmccollough/projects/octave-3.2.2/scripts/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 57, column 9
error:   /z/users/kmccollough/projects/octave-3.2.2/scripts/plot/plot.m at line 178, column 18
octave:1> __gnuplot_version__
ans = 4.3.0
octave:2>

Thanks,
kelvin

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

>> warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!

The problem is with lapack (and atlas if it builds against it).
You may want to have a look at

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520518

and fill a similar bug report for RHEL.

Sincerely,

Dmitri.
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[John W. Eaton-3]

On  8-Sep-2009, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

| >> warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!

FWIW, in future versions of Octave (at least in releases after the
3.2.x series) this will be a fatal error, so users won't be able to
easily ignore it.

The patch is here:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/264fb5520973

and is fairly simple, so perhaps it should be applied to the 3.2.x
series as well.

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[Jaroslav Hajek-2]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, John W. Eaton<jwe@...> wrote:

> On  8-Sep-2009, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>
> | >> warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
>
> FWIW, in future versions of Octave (at least in releases after the
> 3.2.x series) this will be a fatal error, so users won't be able to
> easily ignore it.
>
> The patch is here:
>
>  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/264fb5520973
>
> and is fairly simple, so perhaps it should be applied to the 3.2.x
> series as well.
>

applied.

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[David Sarraf]

I had the same problem using Octave under Fedora 11.  Compiling from source per these instructions produced a working version.  The pre-compiled .RPM file had numerous other bugs, including crashing with a dump of octave-core on simple errors such as divide by zero.  The compiled version reports an error but does not crash the interpreter.

Thanks for the guidance




The problem is solved on RHEL 5.3 with the same errors :

1) Remove gnuplot from redhat :

yum erase gnuplot

2) Remove libraries blas/lapack from redhat :

yum erase lapack
yum erase blas

3) Remove oldies :

yum erase compat-*
yum erase compat-lib*

4) Compile the last gnuplot and lapack :

cd gnuplot-4.2.5
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

AND

cd lapack-3.2.1
cp make.inc.example make.inc
make blaslib
make all
cp blas_LINUX.a /usr/local/lib/libblas.a
cp lapack_LINUX.a /usr/local/lib/liblapack.a

5) Compile octave :

cd octave-3.2.2
./configure --with-blas=/usr/local/lib  --with-lapack=/usr/local/lib --enable-static LIBS=-lpthread
make
make install

Best regards,
Benjamin

kelvin-2 wrote:

I have tried recompiling numerous times but the results have been consistenly unsatisfying.  It should be noted that I am able to successfully install and plot on a 64 bit machine with RHEL4.  Here are the error messages - does anyone know where to look or what might be preventing the tool from working with gnuplot?

using octave-3.2.2 with gnuplot 4.3.0.

bones:octave-3.2.2 >run-octave
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!

...

octave:1> plot(1:10)
error: get: invalid handle (= 1.79769e+308)
error: called from:
error:   /z/users/kmccollough/projects/octave-3.2.2/scripts/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 57, column 9
error:   /z/users/kmccollough/projects/octave-3.2.2/scripts/plot/plot.m at line 178, column 18
octave:1> __gnuplot_version__
ans = 4.3.0
octave:2>

Thanks,
kelvin