Re: Mac OS Binary

[Ben Abbott]

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 4:38 AM, Sebastian <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I’m running Mac OS 10.10.6 one a late 2011 Macbook Pro (i7). Unfortunately 
>> the app bundle does not run for me and exists without any hint or complaint. 
>> From the command line, I get ...
>> 
>> PATH=/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/bin/:$PATH;cd 
>> ~;/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/bin/octave --force-gui
>> octave exited with signal 4
> 
> What a pity. 
> 
> Am I right that signal 4 refers to illegal instructions? So maybe the it's a 
> matter of architecture? However, the i7 should be more than enough... 
> I compiled it on a Macbook Pro i7 using 10.10.5 in a virtual machine with 
> command line tools 7.1:
> 
> pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
> package-id: com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
> version: 7.1.0.0.1.1444952191
> 
> It works also on 10.11.2 beta on the host. I did not try any other machine so 
> far. 
> 
> Maybe you have a different version of the command line tools installed? Could 
> that be a reason?
> Does any other program from /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/bin run on your 
> machine (e.g. gcc-5 --version)?
> 
> Thanks for testing, bye
> Sebastian 

Sounded like a good idea, but the gcc in the bundle doesn’t crash …

./gcc-5 --version
gcc-5 (Homebrew gcc 5.2.0) 5.2.0
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Ben