Re: Mac OS Binary

[Sebastian]

> It runs for me on a 2014 MacBook Pro Retina w/2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 running 
> El Capitan 10.11.1. I have the latest Xcode installed, as well as MacPorts, 
> but not Fink or homebrew.
Great; at least someone else with i7 can use it :)

> I’ve tried essentially two modes of running Octave:
>  (1) with the GUI, either by double-clicking the app icon in the Finder or by 
> typing in a Terminal window::
> $ /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/bin/octave --force-gui
> (2) without the GUI, by typing in a Terminal window:
> $ /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/bin/octave --no-gui
> Here are the anomalies I see:
> - (2) still opens up an octave-gui app (with no open windows). Quitting that 
> app causes octave to exit with a segfault.
this is expected. "--no-gui" still initializes the gui backend. try running 
$ /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/bin/octave-cli

> - (2) runs the test suite for some of my code  >3x slower than (1)!!
That's ugly. Do you have access to a Linux Octave somewhere for testing? Is the 
speed difference the same on it?

> - attempting a plot in (1) results in a hang with a spinning rainbow
I think something is messed up with QT. I do not yet know why. The next build 
will use gnuplot. It's more reliable (but less fancy)

> - attempting a plot in (2) results in a successful plot (sometimes), followed 
> by a segfault upon trying to manipulate the figure window

again: maybe gnuplot is an alternative here...

Sebastian