Error building "octave" from port

[Mark Anderson]

I had this very same problem, check out this ticket:
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13686

I managed to get Octave 3.0.0 to build using the Portfile in this  
ticket.

—Mark

On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:24 PM, 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
>
> Going a bit deeper into what happens :
>
> jfg:interpreter jean-francoisgobin$ gdb munge-texi
> GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-768) (Tue Oct  2 04:07:49  
> UTC 2007)
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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> you are
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> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for  
> details.
> 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
>
>
>
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