[Techtalk] Trying to get octave to compile.

[John Clarke]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:38:34 +1100, Sue Stones wrote:
> 
> 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.

Did you rebuild octave from scratch after installing the readline rpms? 
Did you delete the other versions of readline first?

> Any idea what I do now?

I've had a look and the latest is 2.1.57.  Try downloading that and
rebuilding.  Make sure you delete the non-rpm versions of readline
first.

I did try to build it here, but I don't have fortran or f2c installed. 
I don't have time tonight to do any more, but I might be able to have a
go at work tomorrow.

If 2.1.57 doesn't work, you could try building a debug version and
running it with gdb (or even just run the non-debug version to see why
it crashes), but I get the impression that you probably don't have much
experience with gdb, or any inclination to gain any ;-)


Cheers,

John
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