octave-general @1.3.4_0 Configure error - build failure

[roberthuston@…]

After upgrading to octave @3.8.1_0, I also needed to upgrade my Octave packages. However, octave-general @1.3.4_0 now fails at configuration because it can't find /opt/local/share/octave/3.8.1/etc/macros.texi. I went to that directory and verified that the file is indeed missing. My previous version of octave-general @1.3.2_0 was fine, but it ran with my installation of octave @3.6.4. It would be nice to play with the new GUI, but I can't be without my Octave packages, so I'm reverting for now.

The end of the /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/main.log file contains:

:info:configure /opt/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.1 SHA1.cc
:info:configure /opt/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.1 mark_for_deletion.cc
:info:configure /opt/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.1 packfields.cc
:info:configure /opt/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.1 unpackfields.cc
:info:configure copyfile /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/work/.tmp/oct-S1fOV6/general/src/SHA1.oct /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/work/.tmp/oct-S1fOV6/general/src/mark_for_deletion.oct /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/work/.tmp/oct-S1fOV6/general/src/packfields.oct /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/work/.tmp/oct-S1fOV6/general/src/unpackfields.oct /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/work/.tmp/oct-S1fOV6/general/inst/x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0-api-v49+
:info:configure unable to open /opt/local/share/octave/3.8.1/etc/macros.texi for reading
:info:configure error: called from '__makeinfo__' in file /opt/local/share/octave/3.8.1/m/help/__makeinfo__.m near line 103, column 5
:info:configure error: called from:
:info:configure error:   /opt/local/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/private/install.m at line 241, column 5
:info:configure error:   /opt/local/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/private/build.m at line 50, column 3
:info:configure error:   /opt/local/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 516, column 7
:info:configure Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/work/general" && /opt/local/bin/octave -q -f --eval 'pkg build -verbose -nodeps /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/work/general /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/work/.tmp/general.tar.gz' 
:info:configure Exit code: 1
:error:configure org.macports.configure for port octave-general returned: configure failure: command execution failed
:debug:configure Error code: NONE
:debug:configure Backtrace: configure failure: command execution failed
    while executing
"portconfigure::configure_main org.macports.configure"
    ("eval" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"eval $procedure $targetname"
:info:configure Warning: targets not executed for octave-general: org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
:notice:configure Please see the log file for port octave-general for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/main.log

Things break down after the ":info:configure copyfile" line.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Cc'ing the octave port maintainer.

[dimkab]

Confirm, same problem here.

[dimkab]

Cc Me!

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

Huh. It seems that Octave must be built with documentation or else configuring packages fails: ​http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42352 ... this would make me think that we should always build documentation which, in turn, implies a dependency on latex. Michael?

[urilabob@…]

Replying to sean@…:

Huh. It seems that Octave must be built with documentation or else configuring packages fails: ​http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42352 ... this would make me think that we should always build documentation which, in turn, implies a dependency on latex. Michael?

The savannah writeup says that the docs are already built in the sources and just need to be copied (I have no idea whether this is correct, nor where to check). If so, the dependency would only be on texinfo, rather than the whole of latex (since texinfo is rather smaller, that would presumably make it less of an issue).

[urilabob@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #44467.

[urilabob@…]

Does anyone have a workaround for this problem? I tried what seemed obvious:

511 port uninstall octave-general 512 port install octave-general +with_docs

but got the same error (which suggests that the discussion in savannah isn't the whole story).

[roberthuston@…]

For the time being, it looks like we need to include the "+docs" variant when installing octave. Then octave-general will install.

sudo port install octave +docs
sudo port install octave-general

[urilabob@…]

Thank you Robert! Now working perfectly.

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

Fixed in r122966.