Re: Octave.app 3.0.1 for Mac OS X

[Thomas Treichl]

Stuart Edwards schrieb:
> Hi - 
>
> I installed the PPC version together with the enclosed GnuPlot but am 
> unable to start Octave.  
> Below is a copy of the terminal session and the crash log.
>
> oldg3:~ stu$ exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave: line 1: 
> readlink: command not found
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/mkoctfile: line 1: 
> readlink: command not found
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/mkoctfile: line 1: 
> readlink: command not found
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave: line 72:   405 
> Illegal instruction     OCTAVE_HOME="${OCTAVE_HOME}" PATH="${PATH}" 
> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" CC="${CC}" CXX="${CXX}" 
> CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" 
> FFLAGS="${FFLAGS}" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" DL_LDFLAGS="${DL_LDFLAGS}" 
> SED="$SED" "${ROOT}/bin/octave-3.0.1" "$@"
> [Process completed]

Hi Stuart,

this is a known problem with Mac OSX 10.3. If you call 'man readlink' in 
Terminal.app then you can read the documentation of the readlink program, but 
actually it is not included in Mac OSX 10.3 - it was forgotten. This also was 
reported here

  https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2007-September/005920.html

If you read the last email of this thread from Marius Schamschula then you'll 
find a link at the Huntsville Macintosh Users Group site with a backport of the 
stat package (which includes the readlink program) or you use this direct link 
and read the Readme.html file about how to set it up on your Mac

  http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/BSD/Administration/System/stat/

Hope this helps for you,

  Thomas