Re: octave

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Wed, 15 May 1996, Olivier Abad wrote:

> Hi,
> I can't get octave-1.1.1-2 to work correctly on my 1.1 system. I get 
> the following error messages:
> 
> > octave
> error: failed to load symbols from `/usr/bin/octave.bin'
> Octave, version 1.1.1.
> Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details, type `warranty'.
> octave:1> x = [ 1, 2, 3 ]
> x =
>   1  2  3
> octave:2> kurtosis (x)
> error: failed to link library /usr/lib/liboctdld.a
> error: unable to load builtin function max
> error: evaluating index expression near line 31, column 9
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 31, column 7
> error: called from `length' in file
> `/usr/lib/octave/1.1.1/m/general/length.m' error: called from `mean'
> in file `/usr/lib/octave/1.1.1/m/statistics/mean.m' error: called from
> `kurtosis' in file `/usr/lib/octave/1.1.1/m/statistics/kurtosis.m'
> 
> Did someone have the same problem ?
> Thanks for your help.

1.1.1-2 has been reported broken. Fall back to the a.out version from
stable (1.1.1-1) until I can get the next version up and running. Soon, I
hope :-)

Luck,

Dwarf

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