i've managed to solve the problem by (finally) getting the 1110 revision and compiling it. now everything seems to work.
nothing has changed on my system so i can only guess something is not quite right with revision 1107. thanks to all, matt. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
