Presumably you are trying to use octave 2.9.9 which is the version in MacPorts at this time. Patches have been submitted to update the octave port to 2.9.15. You could try those patches and see if they help.

http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12937

On Nov 3, 2007, at 18:20, Eric Brombaugh wrote:

Hi again,

I'm all the way to building octave on my Leopard / Santa Rosa Macbook. It bombs out during the documentation formatting process:

making arith.texi from arith.txi

/bin/sh: line 1: 79234 Segmentation fault      ./munge-texi -d ../../src/DOCSTRI

NGS -d ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS < arith.txi > arith.texi.t

make[3]: *** [arith.texi] Error 139

make[2]: *** [interpreter] Error 2

make[1]: *** [doc] Error 2

make: *** [all] Error 2

Digging around in the munge-texi program (rebuilt with the -g flag) with gdb, I see the following:

(gdb) run -d ../../src/DOCSTRINGS -d ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS < arith.txi > arith.texi.t

Starting program: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_math_octave/work/octave-2.9.9/doc/interpreter/munge-texi -d ../../src/DOCSTRINGS -d ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS < arith.txi > arith.texi.t

Reading symbols for shared libraries +++. done

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.

Reason: 13 at address: 0x00000000

0x8fe18aa2 in __dyld_misaligned_stack_error ()

Looks like a null pointer dereference. Anyone have any clues about how to get around this one?