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Re: Octave 3.4.0 crashes silently on the latest cygwin 1.7.8
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George Barrick |
Subject: |
Re: Octave 3.4.0 crashes silently on the latest cygwin 1.7.8 |
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Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:24:00 -0400 |
Re: Octave 3.4.0 crashes silently on the latest cygwin 1.7.8
2011.03.28.15:21:43 UT
Hello octave users,
Like Pertti, I've been using octave in the
cygwin environment, and have encountered the same
silent error/crash. I read Marco's comment that
this can be attributed to a problem with the
libgfortran3, and I have attempted to (temporarily)
revert to libgfortran-4.3.4-3.
My own problem arises from the cygwin installer:
libgfortran3 has corrupt local copy.
I have gone into the install directory tree where
the .gz files corresponding to the cygwin packages
are located (different from where my local cygwin
is actually installed). I deleted _only_ the two
copies:
libgfortran3-4.3.4-4.gz,
libgfortran3-4.3.4-3.gz,
but still get the 'corrupt local copy' message.
Can someone point me to some useful documentation
surrounding the cygwin installer? I know that this
is (officially) a cygwin issue, and I should be
asking this question on that forum, but with this
post, I want to grab the attention of folks with
direct, relevant experience. Clearly I'm needing
also to throw out a particular database file that
keeps track of installed/un-installed packages in
the cygwin environment, but I'm not certain which
one.
Also, if anyone has quick-fix instructions
along the lines of: "Hey George, just chuck the
whole tree of files from the install directory!",
then I'm certain also that I can follow some
moderate degree of detail in the instructions.
Thanks all (especially Marco),
George address@hidden