Re: macOS 4.4.0 DMG (beta2) ready for testing

[Mike Miller]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 21:59:16 -0700, apjanke-floss wrote:
> I think this error message might actually be two error messages that got
> interspersed. One is a warning:

Right.

> and the other is an error:
> 
> <built-in>: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction: 4 
[…]
> That "Illegal instruction: 4" usually happens when you're running code that
> is compiled for a different architecture or OS version than the one that
> you're on. But in this case I have no idea why it's happening. The
> "<built-in>" suggests it's coming from the Octave executable, and not from
> the `gfortran` it's calling out to, but I'm not sure.

This error has come up before a few times over the past couple years,
always when installing the control package, and only on macOS systems.

The "<built-in>" tag is coming from the gfortran compiler itself. I
suspect it is referring to built-in Fortran functions.

The control package is one of the few Octave Forge packages that has
Fortran source code that is compiled by the pkg command when installed.

Here are some references to threads and bug reports where this has come
up before, maybe this will help you resolve this or help users fix it
when it comes up again.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48625
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49236
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Control-3-0-0-won-t-install-td4682447.html
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50886
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Mac-OS-install-control-pkg-3-1-0-td4687497.html

-- 
mike

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