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[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Dec-1996, J. Sigbrandt <address@hidden> wrote:

: Octave segfaults before reaching the octave prompt.  Re-creating
: the file ~/.octave_hist seems to solve the problem and octave
: gets a little further.  However:

I can't reproduce these problems.  As far as I can tell, Octave works
fine on my Linux system.  I'm using

  i586, Linux 2.0.0, gcc 2.7.2, libg++ 2.7.14, and libc 5.2.18

What versions of libg++ and libc do you have?
(Run ldd /your/path/to/octave to find out).

jwe