Re: Octave on Yosemite

[Marius Schamschula]

On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:32 AM, Eugenio Gianniti <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>> On 10 Nov 2014, at 10:10, Carlo De Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 9 Nov 2014, at 23:43, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Carlo,
>>> 
>>> I'm struggling to build Octave since switching to Yosemite.  I tried the 
>>> macport Octave-3.8.2, but it cashes crashes when exiting octave.
>>> 
>>> libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type 
>>> octave_interrupt_exception
>>> panic: Abort trap: 6 -- stopping myself...
>>> 
>>> Does the happen for you as well?
>>> 
>>> Any chance you have a build script that works on Yosemite?
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Ben,
>> 
>> Sorry I haven't upgraded to Yosemite yet, so I do not have direct experience 
>> with this issue.
>> From experience with the previous upgrade from Mountain Lion to Mavericks, I 
>> would recommend 
>> reinstalling all macports packages after the upgrade, as I recall that 
>> having some leftovers 
>> from the previos version created some problems for me.
>> I am not sure this is really relevant here though.
>> 
>> c.
> 
> I have upgraded to Yosemite, and I use Homebrew for dependencies. At first I 
> tried to reinstall all of them, remembering the upgrade to Mavericks, but  
> still couldn’t build. Then I applied the patch proposed in [1] and succeeded, 
> without changing build script. An important glitch is that the Octave I built 
> from source refuses to launch the GUI, but probably this is a problem of mine.
> 
> Eugenio
> 
> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43562

I’m running the MacPorts install of octave 3.8.2 under Yosemite, and am seeing 
the same error as Ben when exiting.

Note: this is an issue with Xcode 6.1, not with Yosemite, as I see the same 
issue under Mavericks.

Marius
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