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Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC
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Equiton |
Subject: |
Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:59:46 -0800 (PST) |
I'll keep to an earlier version for my iBook. My iMacMini is 10.5 and intel,
so will use 3.0.3 on that one...
I don't use any of the advanced octave features, so the .m files are fully
compatible...
regards
Mark
Thomas Treichl wrote:
>
> 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
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- Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC, (continued)
- Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC, Thomas Treichl, 2008/11/27
- 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC, Mark Gould, 2008/11/27
- Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC, Equiton, 2008/11/27
- Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC, Equiton, 2008/11/28
- Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC, Thomas Treichl, 2008/11/28
- Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC, Equiton, 2008/11/29
- Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC, Thomas Treichl, 2008/11/29
- Re: 3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC,
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