From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Dec  5 11:35:01 1996
Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:34:44 -0600

On  5-Dec-1996, J. Sigbrandt <jay at elec dot gla dot ac dot uk> wrote:

: Octave segfaults before reaching the octave prompt.  Re-creating
: the file ~/.octave_hist seems to solve the problem and octave
: gets a little further.  However:

I can't reproduce these problems.  As far as I can tell, Octave works
fine on my Linux system.  I'm using

  i586, Linux 2.0.0, gcc 2.7.2, libg++ 2.7.14, and libc 5.2.18

What versions of libg++ and libc do you have?
(Run ldd /your/path/to/octave to find out).

jwe