> On Oct 28, 2015, at 07:59, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Oct 27, 2015, at 21:27, James Gunning <james.gunn...@csiro.au> wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> I'm doing a pretty fresh install of octave. >> There's a build error at >> >> ./octave.cps:56: Argument of \\ has an extra }. >> >> which I see looks fixed on the debian site as >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790626 >> >> I saw one fink report at >> https://www.mail-archive.com/fink-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg41019.html >> which is basically it, but not a resolution that I could see. >> It looks like an upstream fix. >> >> Any news suggested workarounds on this is welcome. >> >> Thanks to Alexander, Jack et al for all their energy & tireless work . >> >> Best wishes, >> James. >> >> >> <James_Gunning.vcf> > > I was never able to trigger this, myself, so I forgot about it. D’oh! > Thanks for the leg work. > > I tried adding the Octave-3.8.2 patch from the Debian bug report, but that > actually finally _produced_ the error here rather than fixing it. > > Maybe try adding something like > > cp -f %p/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf %b/doc > > in the PatchScript block, since upstream’s texmf.cnf was mentioned in the > report? > > (Major pet peeve of mine: packages forcing end-users to build their docs for > full functionality rather than making this optional and shipping built docs > in their tarsal). > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison >
I’ve just committed a change which works for me. I temporarily applied the patch to trigger the failure here, and then switched Octave’s texinfo dependency over to texinfo-legacy, and that allowed Octave to build for me again. After a selfupdate, you can verify if you have the new version by using “fink show-deps octave”—the updated version will have texinfo-legacy in the dependencies. -- 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
