seg-fault of octave on MacOSX

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Dec-2007, Jean-François Mertens wrote:

| 
| On 05 Dec 2007, at 03:32, John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > | On 04 Dec 2007, at 23:34, Jean-François Mertens wrote:
| > |
| > | | This occurs even when octave is compiled with
| > | FFLAGS='-O0 -gfull -Wall'
| 
| > I don't see how FFLAGS could be important here.  The ov-fcn-handle
| > file is written in C++ and I don't see that the tests in that file
| > depend in any way on parts of Octave that are written in Fortran.
| >
| Was my impression too.
| But definitely the first complaints on fink lists about such problems  
| started
| almost immediately after the switchover from g95 to gfortran 4.2.2
| (including for all fortran deps)

Was that the only change, or did the C and C++ compilers also change?

| And I observe that the second part of the tests in src/ov-fcn-handle.cc
| seems hdf5 -related _ so I first re-built hdf5, running make check, and
| that passes all its tests..

How is HDF5 involved?  I seem to remember that there was a report that
the crash occurred when saving structures in text mode.  In that case,
I don't think the HDF5 library could have any effect.

jwe