Hi, sorry for essentially vanishing for two weeks, but Murphy hit. Thanks to Sébastien and Rafael, the Octave transition went pretty smoothly. I will be essentially away for another week (Murphy hit twice, I have some challenging deadlines at work), so feel free to progress as you see fit. I think that semidef-oct can be removed and octave-parallel as well. I do have access to an alpha chroot, so I'll look at the -mieee problem there later. Thomas