Error building "octave" from port

[Chris Waterson]

On Apr 4, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Jean-François Gobin wrote:
> 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

See <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13686>.   
There's a portfile in that ticket that can be used to build  
octave-3.0.0.

chris