Problems running Octave on Mac 10.3.9 laptop

[Thomas Treichl]

Thad Walker schrieb:
>   I am trying to run Octave on my old iBook running 10.3.9.  I 
> downloaded and installed the binary from octave.sourceforge.net.
> When I try to run it, I get the following message:
> 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave: line 74: 
>   2757 Illegal instruction
> OCTAVE_HOME="${OCTAVE_HOME}" PATH="${PATH}" 
> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" CC="${CC}"
> CXX="${CXX}" CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" 
> CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" FFLAGS="${FFLAGS}"
> LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" DL_LDFLAGS="${DL_LDFLAGS}" SED="$SED" 
> "${ROOT}/bin/octave-3.0.0" "$@"
> 
> I get a similar message when I tried to install 3.0.1 as well.
> 
> I successfully installed Octave on my desktop machine running 10.4.11 
> without incident.

I don't think the problem is in that line (my suspicion is that the startup 
script fails somewhere else on your system), however, I know from a few people 
that Octave.app runs perfectly on the 10.3.9 PPC platform (your 10.3.9 system is 
a PPC, or?). Is it the same message that appears if you start up Octave from a 
running Terminal like

   bash:~$ /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave

Regards,

   Thomas