I've been spending my free time working on info files for the Fink
package manager. I'm hoping to use FInk to maintain both octave and
the octave-forge toolboxes. On the ppc based mac's both octave and
the toolboxes install and function correctly.
However, I've encountered a problem on my intel based mac. Octave
installs fine, but octave-forge does not.
I've done what I can to isolate the errors. When I try to use pkg to
install the toolboxes from octave-forge I encounter segmentation
faults and/or an error from pkg.m
For example, the 1st time I try to install 'audio-1.0.2.tar.gz', a
segmentation fault results
sudo octave
octave:1> pkg global_list
/sw/share/octave/octave_packages
octave:2> pkg('install','-nodeps','audio-1.0.2.tar.gz')
panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
When I make a second attempt, I get ...
sudo octave
octave:1> pkg('install','-nodeps','audio-1.0.2.tar.gz')
error: couldn't create packinfo directory: File exists
error: called from `pkg:copy_files' in file /sw/share/octave/2.9.17/
m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1312, column 5
The error implies that the packinfo file for the audio toolbox
already exists ... However the directory "ls /sw/share/octave/
packages" is empty.
Anyone seen this? ... am I doing something wrong?