From help-request at octave dot org Sun Nov 6 20:42:19 2005 Subject: Re: WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file From: Keith Goodman To: "John W. Eaton" Cc: Help Octave Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:28:42 -0600 On 10/18/05, John W. Eaton wrote: > On 18-Oct-2005, Keith Goodman wrote: > > | I need help compiling octave. Just about everything fails on `make > | check'. But I do get a warning: > | > | $ make check > | make -f octMakefile check > | make[1]: Entering directory `/I/am/using/debian/etch/octave' > | make -C test check > | make[2]: Entering directory `/I/am/using/debian/etch/octave/test' > | WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file > | > | [SNIP] > | > | === octave Summary === > | > | # of expected passes 9 > | # of unexpected failures 1198 > | ../src/octave version 2.9.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu). > > I think we could use a little more information. What options did you > use for configure? I tried configure with options ( --enable-shared --disable-static) and without. > Did the make process proceed normally? I bet it didn't but it looks good to me. > What is in the test/octave.log file for the test failures? It's all segmentation faults. Here's an example: Octave Output: panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... save to `octave-core' complete /bin/sh: line 1: 29437 Segmentation fault ../src/octave -f -q -H -p .:../src//:./../scripts// ./octave.test/while/while-5.m 2>&1 FAIL: octave.test/while/while-5.m testcase ./octave.test/while/while.exp completed in 1 seconds ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------