On 11/17/06, Matt Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi jens, > > thanks for your reply. > > there should be nothing odd about my install since i am just setting up a > brand spanking new macbook pro. there is no stray .octave* directory or > anything like that. > > i have 2.1.72-1107 but i can't imagine the -1110 version would be any > different...how do i force fink to compile a later version? purging, > removing the .deb file for good measure updating, still gives me -1107. > > matt. >
Make sure your unstable tree is activated and run "fink selfupdate" with rsync or cvs updating. > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Jens Noeckel wrote: > > > > > On Nov 16, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Matt Parry wrote: > > > >> > >> i've installed octave on an intel macbook pro. latest everything: fink, > >> mac osx, apple x11. > >> > >> everything works fine except when octave tries to pipe stuff to an > >> external process. for example: gnuplot and less. then i get > >> > >> panic: Bus error -- stopping myself... > >> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... > >> panic: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting... > >> Abort > >> > >> with gnuplot, the abort happens straightaway. with less, when called by > >> help (but not help -i or when displaying a large vector/matrix), i get the > >> help info and then the abort. > >> > >> i am not sure how to uncover more information about the crash and would > >> appreciate any insight. > >> > >> cheers, > >> > >> matt. > >> > >> p.s. comparing the install with one (octave 2.1.64) on an g3 ibook, the > >> main difference in octave_config_info is > >> > >> words_big_endian = 0 > >> words_little_endian = 1 > >> > >> which are swapped. but i am guessing this is a ppc/intel difference. > > > > Hi, > > > > I've got octave 2.1.72-1110 from fink unstable on a MBP, and cannot confirm > > this problem. Plotting and help works fine for me. But perhaps you've got > > the > > octave from the "stable" tree - you didn't say anything about that, but I'm > > guessing (rather blindly) that there's some incompatible or missing binary > > version of something octave depends on. If this is the case, then this would > > be a situation where switching to the "unstable" tree may make things more > > stable... Have you done a fink selfupdate and update-all lately? Or do you > > have a ~/.octave* directory that you could move out of the way? > > > > Jens > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) Got job? http://akhmac.blogdns.net/~hansen/akh_cv/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
