Problem compiling / installing octave

[markd at macports.org]

Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> on Friday, April 20, 2007 at 12:44
AM -0800 wrote:
>> I'm having trouble installing octave. I keep getting the following
>> error message:
>>
>> stephen-dones-computer:~ srdone$ sudo port install octave
>> --->  Configuring gmp
>> Error: Target com.apple.configure returned: can't read
>> "configure.cflags": no such variable
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gcc42 gmp libiconv
>> mpfr glpk gnuplot expat fontconfig freetype zlib gd2 jpeg libpng
>> ncurses ncursesw pdflib readline teTeX gawk gettext ghostscript gsed
>> texi2html texinfo hdf5 pcre
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>configure.cflags is new... Are you running MacPorts 1.4.3? If not,  
>please "sudo port selfupdate" to get it, then try again.

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Wait a minute.  I'm getting the same error.  Apparently, configure.cflags
is not in MP 1.4.3.  I used it in a port also.

Mark