Octave fails to start on YDL G5 Mac

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Feb-2008, Stephen Gordon Lenk wrote:

| I built Octave from source on a G5 Mac with YDL 5.0.2
| No reported errors (some libs missing, but build completed)
| Try to start octave from terminal window
| 
| [steve at localhost ~]$ octave
| octave: error while loading shared libraries:
| /usr/local/lib/octave-3.0.0/libcruft.so: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at
| 0x0eaa386c for symbol `free' out of range
| [steve at localhost ~]$

I doubt that this is a bug in Octave.  It looks more like a compiler
or linker problem to me.

jwe