error building Octave

[Liam Groener]

Hi,
I tried to build Octave 3.2.4 on an Mac OS X 10.6.3 machine. As I had Octave 3.2.3 already installed, I uninstalled it before attempting to install 3.2.4. During the attempted install, I got the following messages:

iMac-4718:~ liamg$ sudo port install octave

--->  Computing dependencies for octave
--->  Fetching octave
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for octave
--->  Extracting octave
--->  Applying patches to octave
--->  Configuring octave
--->  Building octave
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_math_octave/work/octave-3.2.3" && /usr/bin/make -j5 all " returned error 2
Command output: cross references, insertions,
(/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.3 <23 July 2005>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.)
(./octave-a4.aux
./octave.aux:4743: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000].
@otherbackslash ->@let \=@realbackslash 
                                        
@xrdef #1#2->{@indexnofonts @turnoffactive 
                                           @xdef @safexrefname {#1}}@expanda...
l.4743 @xrdef{doc-setpwent-pg}{555}
                                   
./octave.aux:4743:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on octave.log.
/opt/local/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
make[3]: [octave.pdf] Error 1 (ignored)

./octave-a4.aux:4743: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000].
@otherbackslash ->@let \=@realbackslash 
                                        
@xrdef #1#2->{@indexnofonts @turnoffactive 
                                           @xdef @safexrefname {#1}}@expanda...
l.4743 ...etgrnam-title}{Group Database Functions}
                                                  
./octave-a4.aux:4743:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on octave-a4.log.
/opt/local/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
make[3]: [octave-a4.pdf] Error 1 (ignored)
make[1]: *** [doc] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get complete output.
iMac-4718:~ liamg$ octave -d
/Users/liamg/bin/octave: line 3: /opt/local/bin/octave-3.2.3: No such file or directory
iMac-4718:~ liamg$ sudo install octave -d
Password:
install: octave: Inappropriate file type or format

My Unix is weak and I don't know what to do next?

Liam G,