> On Nov 5, 2015, at 02:06, Jacques Bloch <jacques.bl...@ur.de> wrote:
> 
> FYI: another little problem with octave. On doing a fink update-all I get 
> following error message:
> 
> (/sw/src/fink.build/octave-3.8.2-9/octave-3.8.2/doc/interpreter/fn-idx.texi
> (Function Index) [889] [890])
> (/sw/src/fink.build/octave-3.8.2-9/octave-3.8.2/doc/interpreter/op-idx.texi
> (Operator Index) [891] [892]) [893] [894] )
> (see the transcript file for additional information)
> Output written on octave.dvi (898 pages, 2674024 bytes).
> Transcript written on octave.log.
> /sw/bin/texindex: line 117: exec: gawk: not found
> /sw/bin/texi2dvi: texindex failed
> make[3]: *** [octave.dvi] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ### execution of /tmp/fink.lmNyq failed, exit code 2
> ### execution of /tmp/fink.rrvht failed, exit code 2
> Removing runtime build-lock...
> Removing build-lock package...
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-octave-3.8.2-9
> (Reading database ... 173715 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing fink-buildlock-octave-3.8.2-9 ...
> Failed: phase compiling: octave-3.8.2-9 failed
> 
> Seemingly the gawk package needs to be installed but is not in the 
> dependencies of octave. 
> 
> I solved the problem by running “fink install gawk” and then "fink 
> update-all”.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jacques
> ---
> Dr. Jacques C.R. Bloch
> Institute for Theoretical Physics
> University of Regensburg
> 93040 Regensburg, Germany
> tel: +49 941 943-2018
> fax: +49 941 943-3887
> email: jacques.bl...@ur.de <mailto:jacques.bl...@ur.de>
> web: http://homepages.uni-regensburg.de/~blj05290 
> <http://homepages.uni-regensburg.de/~blj05290>
> 
> 
> 

This was really a problem in texinfo-6.0-1, which could encode either “awk” or 
“gawk” depending on whether Fink’s gawk was installed, and didn’t declare a 
dependency.  It has been updated in texinfo-6.0-2 always to encode /usr/bin/awk.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison

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