Re: Bus error with Octave built with Homebrew/MacOSX

[J. Luis]

On 26-11-2011 23:35, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2011, at 5:52 PM, J. Luis wrote:
>
> > By curiosity I built Octave 3.4.2 on Mac using homebrew. Aside  from a small problem with 
> > szip that brew complained that the MD5 sum failed till I changed the MD5 sum in the brew 
> > formula. Than Octave built fine (and fast - ~30 min). However, whatever I try to make it 
> > plot something, I get (and yes, I have tried the suggested set "GNUTERM=x11" or 
> > 'aqua')
> >
> > octave:1>  graphics_toolkit('fltk')
> > octave:2>  plot(rand(1,2))
> > panic: Bus error -- stopping myself...
> > attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> > save to `octave-core' complete
> > Bus error

> ** Please don't hijack other threads **

Me hijack other threads?
But it was you that wrote in the message to which I replied

"I would hope there are enough MacOS users / developers who follow this 
list that we should be able to automate the process for creating an 
app-bundle.

If that is going to happen, we'll need to a thread for that purpose, and 
a few committed volunteers."


> I've not used Homebrew, but have heard of it.

A very nice tool that does not create a parallel universe under /opt and 
installs everything on /usr/local using symlinks

> Can you tell us more about what you did?

brew install octave

> Did you build Octave (1) from the "formula" supplied by Homebrew, or (2) from a 
> modified version of the Homebrew formula, or from a formula of your own making?

No, I did not edit the octave formula. Only the szip formula because of 
an error somewhere about the expected MD5 sum.

> Also, do I understand correctly that you encounter a bus error when using 
> either the gnuplot or fltk graphics toolkits?

Yes.

Joaquim