> On Jul 27, 2015, at 23:36, candac...@netvigator.com wrote:
>
> Dear Alexander,
>
> Okay, several things:
>
> 1. I installed super YACC (i.e. Bison) as you suggested (version 3.0.4-1000)
> 2. I then ran fink as before (i.e. “fink -l build octave382-atlas-qtmac”)
> 3. It appears to hang just as before. Attached you should find the log file
> “fink-build-log_octave-atlas-qtmac_3.8.2-6_2015.07.28-12.55.06”
>
> ALSO
>
> I went back to my older Mac Pro running Lion (10.7.5) in which I installed
> Octave without any problems about a year and a half ago. The first thing I
> noticed in FinkCommander is that Bison had never been installed there. Just
> for the heck of it I did install it (Bison 3.0-1000) and reinstalled Octave
> (3.6.4-14) without any problems.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Hansen" <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>
> To: candac...@netvigator.com
> Cc: "The Fink Users List" <fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:00:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Installing Octave 3.8.2.-6 on a MacBook Air (OX X
> 10.10.3) via fink
>
>
>> 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>———————————————————————————————————————
>
> The major glaringly obvious difference between your output and mine is that I
> have Fink’s bison installed, and you don’t. Try installing bison. I’ll see
> what happens here without it as well.
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
>
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