Problems building octave

[Marius Schamschula]

Ryan,

The current version of octave is 2.9.16 (as of October 31st).

On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:07 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> Presumably you are trying to use octave 2.9.9 which is the version  
> in MacPorts at this time. Patches have been submitted to update the  
> octave port to 2.9.15. You could try those patches and see if they  
> help.
>
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12937
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 18:20, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I'm all the way to building octave on my Leopard / Santa Rosa  
>> Macbook. It bombs out during the documentation formatting process:
>>
>> making arith.texi from arith.txi
>> /bin/sh: line 1: 79234 Segmentation fault      ./munge-texi - 
>> d ../../src/DOCSTRI
>> NGS -d ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS < arith.txi > arith.texi.t
>> make[3]: *** [arith.texi] Error 139
>> make[2]: *** [interpreter] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [doc] Error 2
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Digging around in the munge-texi program (rebuilt with the -g  
>> flag) with gdb, I see the following:
>>
>> (gdb) run -d ../../src/DOCSTRINGS -d ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS <  
>> arith.txi > arith.texi.t
>> Starting program: /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_math 
>> _octave/work/octave-2.9.9/doc/interpreter/munge-texi -d ../../src/ 
>> DOCSTRINGS -d ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS < arith.txi > arith.texi.t
>> Reading symbols for shared libraries +++. done
>>
>> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
>> Reason: 13 at address: 0x00000000
>> 0x8fe18aa2 in __dyld_misaligned_stack_error ()
>>
>> Looks like a null pointer dereference. Anyone have any clues about  
>> how to get around this one?

Marius
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