From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue May 19 21:34:00 1998 Subject: Re: Question From: Chuck Robey To: "John W. Eaton" cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 21:33:03 -0400 (EDT) On Tue, 19 May 1998, John W. Eaton wrote: > On 19-May-1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > > | I've not dropped this. I just found that if I add the qualifier > | "string" to the variables like in line 198 above (and several after) it > | no longer gets the SIGBUS. I still am getting a SIGBUS at line 211, > | which I modified: Final resolution -- this problem involves limitations of the FreeBSD linker, which are probably not going to be resolved soon. Took 2 steps: first, built with --disable-shared. Also, patched the configuration script so that it linked the executeable "-lreadline" because FreeBSD's readline works ok, and that somewhat helps in limiting the final size of the executeable (which, after stripping, is ~3.0 megs). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr at glue dot umd dot edu| | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------