Re: octave on biowulf

[Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E]]

Hi, Jason.

Hmm.  The Octave on Biowulf is 2.9.4, but it doesn't appear to be the latest 
version.  Perhaps that has been the source of some of the trouble.  The latest 
CVS of Octave shows up as 2.9.4, but is copyright 2006, while the one on 
Biowulf is 2005.  (The octave maintainers have not bumped the version number 
since the 2.9.4 release on 11 Nov 2005, despite massive internal 
changes---perhaps they really should have.)  Only the recent CVS will work.

For example, on biowulf, using the 11 Nov 2005 release (labeled 2.9.4),

octave:1> all([0 1])
error: T& Array<T>::checkelem (2): range error

while on my machine, with the most recent version (also called 2.9.4, sadly),

octave:1> all([0 1])
ans = 0

needless to say, this is a very basic array operation and octave is 
more-or-less useless with bugs of this sort.

Sorry for the confusion about the versions.

Thanks,
Tom