3.0.3 Startup problem OS X 10.4.11, PPC

[Equiton]

I'll keep to an earlier version for my iBook. My iMacMini is 10.5 and intel,
so will use 3.0.3 on that one...

I don't use any of the advanced octave features, so the .m files are fully
compatible...

regards

Mark

Thomas Treichl wrote:
> 
> Equiton schrieb:
>> I typed in the lline as put, and all I get as output is
>> 
>> illegal instruction
>> 
>> No other output
> 
> Then it's exactly what I was thinking of. We had a discussion somewhen
> between 
> the releases of Octave.app 2.9.14 and 2.9.16. Octave.app 2.9.14 and prior
> were 
> very very slow in comparison to other Octave binaries that were available
> for 
> Mac. Then I was playing with a lot of optimization flags for compilation
> and 
> finally I was able to make the binary work fast again.
> 
> This now means that you won't have any chance to make Octave.app 3.0.3
> make run 
> on your Mac G3 anymore because there is some machine code in the binary
> that is 
> optimized for G4 and G5 only - which produces on your G3 'illegal
> instruction'. 
> I'm really very *sorry* but the development of things always goes on and 
> requires more modern hardware and software libraries from time to time.
> 
> I also won't spent the time to backport future releases of Octave.app for
> G3.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>    Thomas
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