Error building "octave" from port

[Jean-François Gobin]

Hi,

I'm trying to install octave. It chokes :

make -C ../../scripts DOCSTRINGS
make[4]: `DOCSTRINGS' is up to date.
making arith.texi from arith.txi
/bin/sh: line 1:  2592 Segmentation fault      ./munge-texi -d ../../ 
src/DOCSTRINGS -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

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Version is octave-2.9.15

Going a bit deeper into what happens :

jfg:interpreter jean-francoisgobin$ gdb munge-texi
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UTC 2007)
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This GDB was configured as "i386-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for  
shared libraries .... done

(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-2.9.15/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
0x8fe18b42 in __dyld_misaligned_stack_error ()

Seems someone is trying to play with a null pointer

jF