Hi Matt,
I started using Octave on a Macbook pro in June. My initial
experiences were with the HPC port of octave; see my weblog
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar/C568946899/E20060609080804/
index.html
However, I've since been able to migrate from a mixed darwinports/HPC/
fink setup to an all fink installation.
http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar/C568946899/E20060919203931/
index.html
I am not able to duplicate your problem, so I'm afraid I can't give
any better help. I am using Revision 1110 from my last fink
selfupdate / fink update-all cycle. I'm using .oct files (legacy
simulation code <-> octave), plotting, and piping octaefv std output
to other processes.
Yours,
A S Hodel
On Nov 17, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Matt Parry 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.
>
> 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
>>
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