building octave fails

[Craig Treleaven]

> On Mar 10, 2019, at 10:47 PM, Ulrich Wienands <wienands at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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".
> ...

Your MacPorts base software needs to be updated:

$ port version
Version: 2.5.4

Use ‘sudo port selfupdate’ or reinstall.

Craig