From help-request at octave dot org Thu Aug 4 14:37:21 2005 Subject: Re: Bug in octave packages for FC4? From: Quentin Spencer To: Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte CC: octave-help at octave dot org Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:27:11 -0500 Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte wrote: >I downloaded the RPM, installed it and now everything works fine. >Thank you very much. >I am just curious about one thing: what code in the previous >octave-forge could conflict with the new octave package in such a way >to cause segmentation faults? I used to think that a new octave >release without a new octave-forge release could break octave-forge, >but not octave itself. >Thanks again, > > I really don't completely understand it myself, and I don't really want to go back to the state my octave installation was in this morning. However, I think it may have had something to do with the fact that the dispatch.oct function from octave-forge is loaded at startup, and it would have been linked to old versions of the octave libraries, which must have been changed when I linked to HDF5. -Quentin ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------