Re: Failure to port Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Friday, November 21, 2008, at 02:38PM, "Robert Fong-tom" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>
>On Nov 21, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:
>
>> Jonathan Stickel schrieb:
>>> This is a macports issue.  You should ask these things on the  
>>> macports-users email list and not on the help-octave list!
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I tried to port Octave using MacPorts the port failed because of  
>>>> the  following error.
>>>>
>>>> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: / 
>>>> Library/ Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework/AquaTerm already exists  
>>>> and does not  belong to a registered port.  Unable to activate  
>>>> port aquaterm.
>>>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnuplot  
>>>> aquaterm  gd2 autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5.8 m4  
>>>> automake jpeg  libtool pdflib gsed hdf5 pcre qhull texinfo  
>>>> lzmautils texlive  texlive_base texi2html texlive_texmf-full  
>>>> texlive_texmf-minimal
>>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what this means?
>>>>
>>> I think you have aquaterm.app installed manually (bundled with  
>>> octave.app from your dmg install?).  You need to uninstall it and  
>>> try again.
>>
>> Nothing that comes with Octave.app (especially Gnuplot.app here)  
>> moves Aquaterm into /Library/Frameworks... I think Robert's  
>> Aquaterm must have been installed manually. Aquaterm stays there  
>> where it is needed:
>>
>> bash~$ ls /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/lib
>>   AquaTerm.framework        libaquaterm.1.0.1.dylib   pkgconfig
>>   libaquaterm.1.0.0.dylib   libaquaterm.dylib
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>   Thomas
>Thomas is right. I have since removed aquaterm from /Library/ 
>Frameworks and re-ported octave, and my /applications/Gnuplot.app/ 
>Contents/Resources/lib looks as shown above. However, I now have the  
>following errors.
>
>Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ 
>bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5 port.  Please deactivate  
>this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
>Error: The following dependencies failed to build: texlive  
>texlive_base perl5.8 texi2html texlive_texmf-full texlive_texmf-minimal
>Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>Any thoughts?

You should ask the supporters at MacPorts.

This error is unrelated to Octave.

Ben