> On Jul 25, 2015, at 20:54, candac...@netvigator.com wrote:
>
> Dear Alexander,
>
> As per your suggestion, I made a run with the command “fink -l build
> octave382-atlas-qtmac”
> and have captured the resulting plain text log. You should find it attached.
> My apologies if it clogs your e-mail as it is 4.4 MB long.
>
> The build seems to be heading into the same territory as before with the last
> lines being
>
>
> ************************************************
>
> Underfull \hbox (badness 2538) in paragraph at lines 758--766
> @textrm gfor-tran, the con-fig-ure script should au-to-mat-i-cally set the Mak
> e-file vari-able
> [842] [843] [844])
> (/sw/src/fink.build/octave-atlas-qtmac-3.8.2-6/octave-3.8.2/doc/interpreter/ema
> cs.texi Appendix H [845] [846] [847] [848] [849] [850] [851] [852])
> (/sw/src/fink.build/octave-atlas-qtmac-3.8.2-6/octave-3.8.2/doc/interpreter/gra
> mmar.texi
> Underfull \hbox (badness 3895) in paragraph at lines 516--2
> @textrm `@texttt ~/.emacs-octave[]@textrm '[] startup file (or the file
> pointed
> to by the Emacs vari-able
> Appendix I [853] [854] [855])
> (/sw/src/fink.build/octave-atlas-qtmac-3.8.2-6/octave-3.8.2/doc/interpreter/gpl
> .texi Appendix J [856] [857] [858] [859] [860] [861] [862] [863] [864] [865]
> [866])
> (/sw/src/fink.build/octave-atlas-qtmac-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 {\\}
>
> ?
>
> *********************************************
>
>
> I've left the system suspended at this point not sure what to enter that may
> be helpful.
>
> Thanks again in advance for any help you can give me on this.
>
> John Babson
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Hansen" <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>
> To: candac...@netvigator.com
> Cc: "The Fink Users List" <fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 12:35:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Installing Octave 3.8.2.-6 on a MacBook Air (OX X 10.10.3) via
> fink
>
>
>> 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-build-log_octave-atlas-qtmac_3.8.2-6_2015.07.26-08.34.25>———————————————————————————————————————
> _______________________________________________
Tis went to the list, because I set the default reply-to to be the list.
Sorry, folks.
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