Re: Octave 3.0.1 Scientific Linux 5.1 (RHAT) build failure

[Francesco Potorti`]

>Even if you're running on AMD64, you could still be running 32-bit kernel
>and then all your binaries would have to be 32-bit as well, I believe.
>'uname -m' will tell you about your kernel (x86_64 or i686).

I am running a 64 bit kernel on a dual-core amd 64 processor.

>On a 64-bit Linux, you could still run either 32 or 64bit octave; 
>'octave -v' will tell you which one you have.

Hmm.  I am running the octave 3.0.1 Debian testing version (1:3.0.1-2).
Here is what "octave3.0 -v" says:

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