Re: Octave.app 3.0.1 for Mac OS X


by JEBrown800 Sep 03, 2008; 01:46pm :

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Dear Mr. Edwards,

Any luck with that? I've got the exact same problem (also on Mac OS X 10.3.9).
Octave 3.0.2 and Octave 2.9.18 are both affected and crash at the same place.

I think Mr. Treichl is missing the point.
The readlink problem is not fatal -- readlink can be replaced with a 10-line script
(see it here).
The point is that Octave (both versions, 3.0.2 and 2.9.18) crash on entry to install_signal_handlers().

Octave's website says Octave will run on 10.3.9, but
knowing how lazy some testers are, I'm betting Octave isn't actually *tested* on Mac OS X 10.3.

J. E. Brown
Software Engineer and Tester

J. E. Brown has been a software engineer for over 20 years.