From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Dec 10 02:30:45 1997
Subject: Segmentation Fault
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: pierrot at sig dot enst dot fr (Jean-Benoit Pierrot)
cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 02:31:50 -0600

On 10-Dec-1997, Jean-Benoit Pierrot <pierrot at sig dot enst dot fr> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.0.9 configured for i586-pc-linux-gnu

|   I'm sorry but I can't understand where is the problem. A friend
| came recently and changed my C/C++ libraries and updated gcc.
| I asked him on my problem but he can't answer.
| 
| I didn't know if the problem result from these changes or from
| octave. Maybe you are in the better place to help me.
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
|  Event is easy :
| 
|    >octave <Enter>
|     Segmentation Fault

Did you build Octave yourself from sources?

If so, you might try the following:

  1. run configure 
  2. edit Makeconf to remove -lgcc and -lc from the definitions of
     FLIBS and CXXLIBS
  3. run make, then make install

I've been told that explicitly listing -lgcc and -lc on the command
line can cause trouble.  If that is the real cause of the problem
here, then I think it will be fixed in the next release. 

Thanks,

jwe