[Kst] DirFile RAW INT16/s type broken?

[D. V. Wiebe]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:34:53PM +0000, Peter Milne wrote:
> Hi Matthew
> 
> Thanks very much for looking at this ..
> 
> Matthew D Truch wrote:
> >> The more interesting standard system is a vanilla fc12 where I first saw 
> >> the problem, this has kst-1.8 installed from packages as shown before
> >>
> >>>> rpm -q kst-getdata
> >>>> kst-getdata-1.8.0-3.fc12.x86_64
> >>>> rpm -q kst
> >>>> kst-1.8.0-3.fc12.x86_64
> >> and ..
> >>
> >> [peter at gigha ~]$ rpm -q getdata
> >> getdata-0.5.0-5.fc12.x86_64
> >>
> >>
> >> However it really seems to me as if the getdata library (plugin?) isn't 
> >> getting called since there's no sign of it in /proc/PID/maps
> >>
> >> [peter at gigha ~]$ grep kst /proc/8254/maps  | wc
> >>     170    1020   19915
> >> [peter at gigha ~]$ grep getdata /proc/8254/maps | wc
> >>       0       0       0
> >>
> >> ... but kst _is_ able to interpret and plot the DirFile (if incorrectly).
> > 
> > Interesting.  On this vanilla machine, if you remove both kst-getdata
> > and getdata, does it still plot the DirFile incorrectly?  
> > 
> yum remove kst-getdata : OK
> 
> but: yum remove getdata complains:
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package getdata.x86_64 0:0.5.0-5.fc12 set to be erased
> --> Processing Dependency: libgetdata.so.1()(64bit) for package: 
> kst-1.8.0-3.fc12.x86_64
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package kst.x86_64 0:1.8.0-3.fc12 set to be erased
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> So the _package_ dependency is there, even if the kst executable doesn't 
> actually use it. Same result of course, incorrectly signed data plot.
> 
> /Peter

AFAICT, this bug has been fixed in GetData 0.6.0.  If it still persists
in the latest release, I'd be very interested to know.  (Many C++-related
bugs were fixed in 0.6.0.)

Cheers,
-dvw
--
D. V. Wiebe
getdata at ketiltrout.net
http://getdata.sourceforge.net/
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