diff -r 87f337783d95 liboctave/eigs-base.cc
--- a/liboctave/eigs-base.cc	Wed Aug 29 10:17:36 2012 -0700
+++ b/liboctave/eigs-base.cc	Wed Aug 29 17:13:32 2012 -0500
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
 static bool
 make_cholb (SparseMatrix& b, SparseMatrix& bt, ColumnVector& permB)
 {
-  octave_idx_type info;
+  octave_idx_type info = 1;
   SparseCHOL fact (b, info, false);
 
   if (fact.P () != 0)
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@
 make_cholb (SparseComplexMatrix& b, SparseComplexMatrix& bt,
             ColumnVector& permB)
 {
-  octave_idx_type info;
+  octave_idx_type info = 1;
   SparseComplexCHOL fact (b, info, false);
 
   if (fact.P () != 0)