fink octave problems

[Heber Farnsworth]

I recently got a new powerbook (these things are so cool) and today I 
wanted to install octave on it so I could do some of the work I usually 
do on my Linux box on the laptop while I travel,etc.  So I installed 
fink and got gnuplot and octave-2.1.40.  Everything seemed to work 
fine.  Then I ran a short job that I had run previously on my Linux box 
and was horrified to find that the results were not the same.

After thinking for a bit I remember a while back that someone had 
complained of numerical inaccuracies with octave on ppc and that it was 
fixed in a newer version.

Questions:

1.  If this is the case then why doesn't fink have the working version?
2.  Is there any way I can get a binary?
3.  If I have to build it myself do I need anything else besides the 
developer tools from Apple?

Heber



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