Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC

[Thomas Treichl]

Equiton schrieb:
> I typed in the lline as put, and all I get as output is
>
> illegal instruction
>
> No other output

Then it's exactly what I was thinking of. We had a discussion somewhen between 
the releases of Octave.app 2.9.14 and 2.9.16. Octave.app 2.9.14 and prior were 
very very slow in comparison to other Octave binaries that were available for 
Mac. Then I was playing with a lot of optimization flags for compilation and 
finally I was able to make the binary work fast again.

This now means that you won't have any chance to make Octave.app 3.0.3 make run 
on your Mac G3 anymore because there is some machine code in the binary that is 
optimized for G4 and G5 only - which produces on your G3 'illegal instruction'. 
I'm really very *sorry* but the development of things always goes on and 
requires more modern hardware and software libraries from time to time.

I also won't spent the time to backport future releases of Octave.app for G3.

Regards,

  Thomas