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Hi Alex, all Thanks so much. Unfortunately it still doesn't build for me - hanging at the same point. I think there must be something else going on. Fortunately I got octave 364 to build though. Cheers James. Alexander Hansen wrote:
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 LiaisonI’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. |
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