The problem is purely within octave; nothing to do
with octave-forge.
Octave shows the same seg-fault on its own test-suite, cf
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2007-November/003970.html

Jean-Francois


On 01 Dec 2007, at 14:22, ALexandre Vial wrote:

> Jean-François Mertens <jean-francois.mertens <at> uclouvain.be>  
> writes:
>
>>
>> Putting this to fink-devel...
>>
>> Since I won't have time to delve into this for the next couple of  
>> days,
>> please have a look at tracker item
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?
>> func=detail&atid=414256&aid=1825780&group_id=17203
>>
>> JF Mertens
>
>
> I have been playing with all of this for afew days on both Intel and
> PPC, with Mac OS X 10.4.11
>
> About octave-forge : there should be a build-depend on libssh2 or
> libssh2.1, as it is required for building package octcdf.
>
> What I have tested:
>
> Set 1:
> octave           2.9.17-1
> octave-forge     20071014-2
> (always built with g95)
>
> Set 2:
> octave                2.9.17-2
> octave-forge          20071014-4
> (built with g95 or gfortran depending on what is installed)
>
> Set 1 works on both Intel and PPC, and is what people should use  
> for now
> on Mac OS X 10.4.
>
> For Set 2, if octave is built WITHOUT gfortran (i.e. if it is not
> installed, even with ConfigureParams: --with-f77=%p/bin/gfortran, but
> g95 is installed), then everything is fine, BUT building octave-forge
> writes directly in /sw/share /octave, wich is not good, as the .deb  
> does
> not contain anything actually, so it is better to stay with rev. 2 of
> this package.
> Now if gfortran is installed, octave compiles fine, but I get a
> seg-fault when building octave-forge on Intel, I did not try on PPC,
> maybe next week.
>

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