From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Oct  7 14:33:22 1997
Subject: Unidentified subject!
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Nikolaos K. Efremidis" <nefrem at cc dot ece dot ntua dot gr>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:31:15 -0500

On  7-Oct-1997, Nikolaos K. Efremidis <nefrem at cc dot ece dot ntua dot gr> wrote:

|   I have a problem when trying to run octave. I have install a linux-elf
| version of octave (1.1.1-2) properly to /usr/local directory.
| This creates a directory /usr/local/octave-1.1.1. Then I exec. 
| #./doinstall/sh
| When I give some instructions to octave I get the error message
| 
| error: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...

Version 1.1.1 is ancient.  I would definitely recommend using 2.0.9
instead.

| Similar messages appear when I compile octave 2.x end then install it.
| 
| I have a Pentium 133, Running Linux Slackware 96, Kernel 2.0.0, and I
| had no similar problems before.

You can try the following patch for aclocal.m4.  After applying it,
you'll need to run autoconf, autoheader, configure, and make again.
Your line numbers will surely be different.

*** aclocal.m4	Tue Jul  8 17:54:17 1997
--- /home/jwe/src/octave-2.0/aclocal.m4	Thu Oct  2 01:55:41 1997
***************
*** 237,243 ****
  	    fi
  	  fi
  	;;
! 	-lang*)
  	  arg=
  	;;
  	-[lLR])
--- 153,159 ----
  	    fi
  	  fi
  	;;
! 	-lang* | -lcrt0.o | -lc | -lgcc)
  	  arg=
  	;;
  	-[lLR])
***************
*** 264,270 ****
  		  ;;
  		esac
  	      ;;
! 	      -lm | -lc)
  	      ;;
  	      *)
  		lflags="$lflags $arg"
--- 180,186 ----
  		  ;;
  		esac
  	      ;;
! 	      -lm)
  	      ;;
  	      *)
  		lflags="$lflags $arg"



If you don't feel like doing all that work, then I'd suggest you get a
statically linked binary from ftp.che.wisc.edu in the directory
/pub/octave/BINARIES/2.0.9.

jwe