Bug#345241: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#345241: octave2.1: octave panics on start

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 7 January 2006 at 16:08, Paul Kienzle wrote:
| With a fresh compile of octave-2.1.72 (no patches) and
| octave-forge from CVS, my debian system doesn't panic.
| 
| When I compile and run against the Debian octave 2.1.72-8
| it panics on every oct-file in octave-forge.  The particular
| problem at startup is that dispatch.oct is called by a
| number of the PKG_ADD functions.

Not here: 

edd at basebud:~> dpkg -l octave-forge octave2.1
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  octave-forge   2005.06.13-8   Contributed functions for GNU Octave from ht
ii  octave2.1      2.1.72-8       GNU Octave language for numerical computatio
edd at basebud:~> octave -q
octave:1> rand(4)
ans =

  0.4886378  0.3294047  0.0239247  0.6818765
  0.1531520  0.7299680  0.5646705  0.6134827
  0.7655607  0.8345606  0.0041081  0.7246739
  0.6205669  0.8305970  0.3044447  0.0303730

octave:2> help rand
rand is the dynamically-linked function from the file
/usr/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v13/i486-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge/rand.oct

 -- Loadable Function:  rand (X)
[...]

Debian testing, current, with a handful of unstable package to facilitate
installation of some KDE packages.


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