Problems building octave

[Ryan Schmidt]

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?