Hi Andrew, > > I woke up this morning and realised the cause of this. Currently > test_octave.sh runs all the tests from a single octave process. I > suspect this is the cause since plrandd is now used in 2 examples (17 > and 21) and so example 21 will give different results now since the > random number generator will already have been called in example 17.
This sounds reasonable, since the corresponding variables are static. Just call plseed(5489) in the octave examples before plrandd(), this will set the random number generator to the default seed. No need to do this for the other bindings as long as a new process is started for every example. Regards, Werner -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office), +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
