From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Nov 27 17:01:57 1996
Subject: Re: Segmentation faults and plot failures
From: Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk (Ted Harding)
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:00:20 +0000 (GMT)

( Re Message From: Mario Storti )
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:11:10 -0500, Craig Earls <acinma at star dot net> said:
> 
> > I have been trying to get Octave working for about a week now, I had a
> 
> I had almost   the  same  problems  with an   ELF  1.1.1  binary   for
> Linux. Then I couldn't compile 1.9x neither 1.1.1. Then I downloaded a
> statically  compiled binary and had   no  problems.  Try a  statically
> compiled 1.1.1  from  http://www.che.wisc.edu,   it's very  robust.  I
> installed it with no problems in several systems.
> 
> Mario

I heartily endorse Mario's comment. I have had exactly the same
precompiled octave-1.1.1 binary working pedrfectly well on Linux systems
with 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.2.8, 1.2.13 and 2.0 kernels (binary simply copied
from system to system).

Ted.                                    (Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk)