Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

[Jerry]

On May 9, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> On May 8, 2014, at 23:14, Jerry wrote:
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>> Octave has failed to install (once again), this time into a fresh MacPorts established according to the Migration advice given at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration onto a new installation of Mavericks.
>> 
>> I did:
>> sudo port install octave +atlas+docs+fltk+gcc48
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>> The first attempt failed after not finding Java. I was asked (by the port command, apparently) to install Java by clicking Install on a dialog box. I then re-ran the above port install command and it ran for a while and then stopped thusly (I have included a few lines before the problem):
>> 
>> 
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>> --->  Fetching archive for qrupdate
>> --->  Attempting to fetch qrupdate-1.1.2_2+atlas+gcc48.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/qrupdate
>> --->  Attempting to fetch qrupdate-1.1.2_2+atlas+gcc48.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/qrupdate
>> --->  Installing qrupdate @1.1.2_2+atlas+gcc48
>> --->  Activating qrupdate @1.1.2_2+atlas+gcc48
>> --->  Cleaning qrupdate
>> Error: The following dependencies were not installed: epstool ghostscript xorg-libXext xorg-libX11 xorg-libxcb doxygen graphviz gd2 xpm xorg-libXt gts netpbm libLASi pango Xft2 xrender cairo xorg-xcb-util gobject-introspection harfbuzz poppler xorg-libXaw groff xorg-libXmu texlive texlive-basic texlive-bin harfbuzz-icu xorg-libXp texlive-bin-extra dvipng latexmk texlive-latex pdfjam texlive-latex-recommended pgf texlive-context texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-math-extra texlive-metapost texlive-xetex texlive-generic-recommended texlive-fontutils lcdf-typetools ps2eps texlive-lang-czechslovak texlive-lang-english texlive-lang-european texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-german texlive-lang-italian texlive-lang-polish texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-lang-spanish texlive-luatex texlive-plain-extra texlive-latex-extra texlive-pictures gnuplot pstoedit ImageMagick transfig
>> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>>   http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
>> Error: Processing of port octave failed
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>> 
>> There is no indication of what went wrong, only that the installation failed. Running the port install command again results in the same thing, after first computing and printing the dependencies for Octave.
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> It means there is a circular dependency. MacPorts cannot handle circular dependencies.
> 
> In this case, it's because you asked for the +docs variant.
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> See: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/37604
> 
> To get around it, you can install without the +docs variant. Then, after that succeeds, you can reinstall with the +docs variant.


Thanks, Ryan. Light testing of Octave indicates that it is currently working. However, at least some of the dependencies indicated in the list above ("Error: The following dependencies were not installed:...") are in fact not installed--but some are. For some reason Octave needs texlive and it is not installed. Some parts of texlive e.g. texlive-bin are installed but others are not. Obviously I can install texlive separately but I'm wondering if something went wrong.

Do you think something went wrong, i.e, will I find some of these dependencies missing later? Do you think your recipe above (install Octave without +docs, then with +docs) will fix any problems?

Thanks,
Jerry