[Techtalk] Trying to get octave to compile.

[Sue Stones]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:46 pm, John Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:17:47 +1100, Sue Stones wrote:
> > Sorry, I remembered wrong, the other packages needed by octave were RPMs.
>
> You included this in your earlier message:
> > [sue at localhost octave-2.1.50]$ rpm -q readline
> > readline-4.3-4mdk
>
> That's why I thought you'd installed readline as an rpm.

This had me confused for a while but I eventually found the rpms on the 
Mandrake install CDs.  So I have installed that one instead.  Somehow I must 
have missed them when I looked there before.

Having installed that version of Readline, i was able to install Octave.  But 
that is not the end of the story.

When i try to run it I get a bus error. There are no usefull error reports.

Any idea what I do now?

sue

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[sue at localhost octave-2.1.50]$ octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
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panic: Bus error -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Bus error