octave 3.6.4 fails to build

[michaelbartz@…]

Octave 3.6.4 fails to build on OS X 10.9

[michaelbartz@…]

log file

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please Cc the port maintainers (port info --maintainers octave-devel).

[thomasrussellmurphy (Thomas Russell Murphy)]

Tailing ~8k of log file from Octave install failure.

[thomasrussellmurphy (Thomas Russell Murphy)]

Same problem on 10.6.8. Installing as sudo port install octave +atlas+docs.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

What does the following return for you:

(cd `port work octave` && find . -name "libranlib*")

[michaelbartz@…]

Michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ michaelbartz$ cd port work octave && find . -name "libranlib*" ./octave-3.6.4/libcruft/.libs/libranlib.a ./octave-3.6.4/libcruft/.libs/libranlib.la ./octave-3.6.4/libcruft/libranlib.la Michaels-MacBook-Pro:work michaelbartz$

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

OK; can you try the following to see if it works:

sudo port clean octave
sudo port install octave +docs use_parallel_build=no

This will take longer (since using just a single thread for building), but it's worth a try.

[thomasrussellmurphy (Thomas Russell Murphy)]

Since I had time and wanted to clear out some unused ports, I sudo port uninstall installed and then reinstalled all of the ports I wanted. Octave successfully installed along with most everything else.

[michaelbartz@…]

Performing

sudo port install octave +docs use_parallel_build=no

installed octave successfully. Thanks.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Great; thanks for reporting back! I had wondered about the use of parallel building in Octave, since I had seen something like this before, too, but had never pinned it down. I will remove parallel building for now, just to be safe, even though it takes longer. Done in r114108.