Re: Binary packages for 3.8

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 25, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Oct 25, 2013, at 3:59 AM, c. wrote:
> 
>> On 25 Oct 2013, at 04:14, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> You are correct, it does not run on Lion (MacOS 10.7.5).
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Ben,
>> 
>> That was unfortunately expected.
>> I'd be curious to try see whether that can be fixed a posteriori.
>> Could you try running the Octave binary in the bundle from the 
>> command line to see whether you get any informative error message?
>> 
>> I would try both
>> 
>> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Octave      # use the startup script in 
>> the bundle
> 
> cd /Applications/Octave.app/Contents
> ./Octave 
> Segmentation fault: 11
> 
>> and 
>> 
>> /Applications/Octave.app/Resources/bin/octave # run the binary directly
> 
> cd /Applications/Octave.app/Resources/bin
> ./octave
> Segmentation fault: 11
> 
> Ben

BTW, MacOS 10.9 has a new ABI.  My understanding is that Fink will be providing 
new binaries for Mavericks ... I assume the same will be true for macports(?)  
Perhaps we should consider different bundles for each version of MacOS X we're 
going to support?

Ben