From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Aug 28 06:45:35 1998 Subject: Re: Binary distribution problem ... From: Jim Van Zandt To: "H. Brown Cribbs III" Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:44:17 -0400 Brown Cribbs - I have read that there are some differences between Red Hat and Debian libraries, even when the .so names agree. I don't remember which libraries were affected. You may need to find binaries built on a Red Hat system. You might learn something from "strace -o /tmp/logfile -ff octave". - Jim Van Zandt > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:19:01 -0700 (PDT) > From: "H. Brown Cribbs III" > To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu > Subject: Binary distribution problem ... > > Hi: > I've tried [repeatedly] to install Octave 2.0.13 on my Red Hat Linux > v4.2 (kernal 2.0.34) machine running the ECGS 1.0.3 compiler suite. > I've been able to compile and run octave on another machine with the same > library revisions, but every binary distribution I've made core dumps on > any command, even 'help.' The binary release from the Octave homepage > core dumps on startup (I never even get the octave prompt). > > I'm pretty sure my libraries are upto date, so I'm at a loss. I've even > added many directories to /etc/ld.so.conf and reran "ldconfig -v" to see > if that would help. Any ideas? > > By upto date on the library front here's the specifics: > ld.so.1.7.14 > libc.so.5.44 > libm.so.5.0.9 > libg++.so.27.1.4 > libstdc++.27.1.4 > I wish I had room to compile on my target system, but that's > not possible since its VERY limited on disk space. > > Thanks for any and all help in advance, > Brown Cribbs > > >>H. Brown Cribbs, III | Currently Visiting: > >>The University of Alabama | NASA Dryden Flight Research Center > >>mailto://cribbs at dariwn dot dfrc dot nasa dot gov| | Phone: (805)258-3417 [NASA] > >>http://www.eng.ua.edu/~hcribbs | (805)942-8360 [HOME]