building octave fails

[Ulrich Wienands]

Trying to build octave on OS X 10.10.6 Yosemite with Macports 2.4.3.

Sync'd port tree first

Then sudo port install octave... installs a bunch of dependencies but then faiis with "invalid command name "startupitems".

Tried a few things (like using the clang70 variant as I have a working clang 7 installation). No joy. Below is the tail of a run with the debug flag (cleaned before running this):

Thanks,

Uli

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DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/audio/flac
DEBUG: OS darwin/14.5.0 (Mac OS X 10.10) arch i386
DEBUG: Sourcing PortGroup compiler_blacklist_versions 1.0 from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/compiler_blacklist_versions-1.0.tcl
DEBUG: compiler clang 700.1.81 not blacklisted because it doesn't match {clang < 503}
DEBUG: adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: Running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies
DEBUG: Finished running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies
DEBUG: Running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies
DEBUG: Finished running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: libogg
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: libogg
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/multimedia/libogg
DEBUG: OS darwin/14.5.0 (Mac OS X 10.10) arch i386
DEBUG: adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: Running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies
DEBUG: Finished running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies
DEBUG: Running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies
DEBUG: Finished running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: libvorbis
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: libvorbis
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/audio/libvorbis
DEBUG: OS darwin/14.5.0 (Mac OS X 10.10) arch i386
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: Sourcing PortGroup muniversal 1.0 from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/muniversal-1.0.tcl
DEBUG: universal variant already exists, so not adding the default one
DEBUG: Running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies
DEBUG: Finished running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies
DEBUG: Running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies
DEBUG: Finished running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies
DEBUG: flac has no conflicts
DEBUG: libogg has no conflicts
DEBUG: libvorbis has no conflicts
DEBUG: portaudio has no conflicts
DEBUG: GraphicsMagick has no conflicts
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: bzip2
DEBUG: Found Dependency: receipt exists for bzip2
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: xz
DEBUG: Found Dependency: receipt exists for xz
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: jasper
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: jasper
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/graphics/jasper
DEBUG: OS darwin/14.5.0 (Mac OS X 10.10) arch i386
DEBUG: Re-registering default for configure.dir
DEBUG: Re-registering default for configure.pre_args
DEBUG: Re-registering default for build.dir
DEBUG: Re-registering default for destroot.target
DEBUG: Sourcing PortGroup cmake 1.0 from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/cmake-1.0.tcl
DEBUG: adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: Running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies
DEBUG: Finished running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies
DEBUG: Running callback DEBUG: Running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies
DEBUG: Finished running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies
DEBUG: jasper has no conflicts
DEBUG: Checking for conflicts against qt59-qtbase
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: qt3
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: qt3
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: qt3-mac
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: qt3-mac
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: qt56-qtbase
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: qt56-qtbase
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: qt511-qtbase
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: qt511-qtbase
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: qt57-qtbase
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: qt57-qtbase
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: qt58-qtbase
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: qt58-qtbase
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: qt55-qtbase
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: qt55-qtbase
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: dbus
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: dbus
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/devel/dbus
DEBUG: OS darwin/14.5.0 (Mac OS X 10.10) arch i386
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: Sourcing PortGroup muniversal 1.0 from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/distfiles.macports.org/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/muniversal-1.0.tcl
DEBUG: invalid command name "startupitems"
    while executing
"startupitems        name        dbus-system \
                    location    LaunchDaemons \
                    uniquename  ${daemon_uniquename} \
 ..."
    (file "Portfile" line 57)
    invoked from within
"source Portfile"
    invoked from within
"$workername eval {source Portfile}"
    (procedure "mportopen" line 41)
    invoked from within
"mportopen $dep_portinfo(porturl) $dep_options $variations"
    (procedure "mportdepends" line 126)
    invoked from within
"mportdepends $depport {} $recurseDeps $skipSatisfied 1"
    (procedure "mportdepends" line 184)
    invoked from within
"mportdepends $mport $target"
    (procedure "mportexec" line 56)
    invoked from within
"mportexec $workername $target"
Error: Unable to execute port: invalid command name "startupitems"