> On Jul 24, 2015, at 07:51, candac...@netvigator.com wrote: > > To Whom It May Concern: > > I fear that I am a bit stumped after spending about four days attempting to > install the latest available version of Octave on a new machine running OSX > 10.10.3 using fink. > > fink installed fine (I’ve used it on different machines for the past decade > starting in PPC land). XCode 6.4 and its associated Command Line Tools 6.4 > also are fine. FinkCommander was also installed and works although for this > project I have been directly using the command line in bash. > > I am not new to the process. A year and a half ago I successfully installed > Octave on an old Intel PowerMac (8 cores) running OSX 10.7.5 currently > running Octave 3.6.4. > > I used the following command (with the understanding that this will be a > 64bit installation using Apple’s native Quartz): > > fink install octave-atlas-qtx11 > > It attempted to install Octave 3.8.2-6. During the build, after about 28 > hours, it failed with the hint that I should switch from using all 4 cores to > using only 1. I assume this implies that something may be attempting to > compile or whatever before a dependent part being built on another core is > completed so it could not find it and thus the failure. > >
Yup. It also makes the logs more intelligible, since there aren’t multiple threads echoing back to the terminal in arbitrary order. > Switching to a single core, the above error did not recur and the process > continued until it seemed to be trying to find gawk. Well, indeed, to my > surprise, I didn’t find it in the system either, so under FinkCommander I > installed gawk without difficulty and started again. > > It would have been nice to have had that as a _separate_ bug report with some output. Was the failure even in Octave, or some dependency? If I knew what the package was, I could check and see if there is a missing build dependency. > Having gotten past that problem, it finally failed again for reasons I cannot > fathom. Towards the end, there was a series of hundreds of “Overfull / > Underfull” messages (which sounds to my ignorance something like a stack > problem). Nope. Those are from TeX—generating documentation--and have to do with its pickiness. They look like warnings to me. > I have attached with this message a TextEdit version of the Terminal session. > Probably the only thing useful to look at is the part highlighted in red > towards the top of the file and the system-capture information generated by > fink at the bottom. However, just to be safe, I have included everything. > > > Before reaching out to you, I carefully read the entire Fink FAQ but nothing > seems to capture what I am experiencing. > > I am a physicist in Hong Kong and Octave has now advanced to the point where > there is a GUI for it in the most recent versions of OS X and I am hoping to > play with it on a portable machine (MacBook Air). > > Thanks in advance for any and all help in this matter. > > Regards, > > John Babson > > 1 attachment, as stated (file: “Overfull Underfull”) > > <Overfull Underfull.rtf> What looks to be causing the failure to me is : (/sw/src/fink.build/octave-atlas-qtx11-3.8.2-6/octave-3.8.2/doc/interpreter/cp- idx.texi (Concept Index) [867] [868] (./octave.cps ./octave.cps:56: Argument of \\ has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \initial ... .5\baselineskip \leftline {\secbf #1} \nobreak \vskip .33\baseli... l.56 \initial {\\} ? Runaway argument? \hss ./octave.cps:56: Paragraph ended before \\ was complete. <to be read again> \par <to be read again> } \initial ... .5\baselineskip \leftline {\secbf #1} \nobreak \vskip .33\baseli... l.56 \initial {\\} ? [869] [870] [871] [872] [873])) (/sw/src/fink.build/octave-atlas-qtx11-3.8.2-6/octave-3.8.2/doc/interpreter/fn- idx.texi (Function Index) [874] (./octave.fns [875] [876] [877] [878] [879] [880] [881] [882] [883] [884] [885] [886] [887])) (/sw/src/fink.build/octave-atlas-qtx11-3.8.2-6/octave-3.8.2/doc/interpreter/op- idx.texi (Operator Index) [888] (./octave.ops … (and similar further instances) That being said, I don’t reproduce your error (10.10.4/Xcode 6.4). Could you please set your build jobs to 1 and use “fink -l build octave382-atlas-qtmac” to generate a plain text log? Then send the file to me off list (it will be named /private/tmp/fink-build-log-octave-atlas-qtmac-3.8.1-6-<timestamp>.log). I’ll generate the corresponding file on my own system and I can try to see what’s going on. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users