Installing OCTAVE 3.0.3

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:53:17PM -0500, Robert Fong-tom said:
> Hi,
> I tried to port Octave 3.0.3 and got the following errors. Any thoughts on 
> where to go from here?
>
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ 
> bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this 
> port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
> Warning: the following items did not execute (for perl5):  
> org.macports.activate
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnuplot gd2 autoconf 
> help2man perl5 m4 automake libtool pdflib gsed hdf5 pcre qhull texinfo 
> lzmautils texlive texlive_base texi2html texlive_texmf-full 
> texlive_texmf-minimal
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> I am a neophyte so I don't really understand these errors. I should add 
> that I previously downloaded the binary of Octave from Source-Forge (I 
> think it was version 3.0.2) and it seem to run OK. But then I tried to 
> install the Image package from that site and it did not work (functions 
> were not available). So I tried to port Octave-Image from macports and got 
> errors. I decided to start over. I uninstalled and cleaned the 
> Octave-Image, and deleted the Octave binary that I first downloaded. Then 
> ported Octave 3.0.3 which gave me the above error.

Sounds like a ticket involving installing deluge:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17115>

Since I see autoconf in the list of dependencies it was trying to install,
jmr's comment:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17115#comment:3>

may be the issue you are seeing.

Bryan


>
> Bob