mkoctfile on octave 3.8.2 / fink OSX

[Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig]

Dear List,

I did a clean install of OSX/Yosemite.
On this system I installed fink, and with fink I installed octave-3.8.2

When trying to complete the installation by adding some sourceforge 
packages I ran into this problem:

octave:1> pkg install -forge control
pkg: unable to find the mkoctfile command, Octave installation is incomplete
error: called from '__gripe_missing_component__' in file 
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/help/__gripe_missing_component__.m near line 
53, column 3
error: called from:
error:   /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/install.m at line 199, 
column 5
error:   /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394, column 9

octave:1> help mkoctfile
'mkoctfile' is a function from the file 
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m

Thus when calling "pkg" octave cannot find mkoctfile.m
but invoking "help mkoctfile" seems to find it.

Also the path to mkoctfile ( /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/miscellaneous/ ) 
is set:

octave:2> path

Octave's search path contains the following directories:

. /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/plot
/sw/lib/octave/3.8.2/site/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin 
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/plot/appearance
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/site/m /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/plot/draw
/sw/lib/octave/3.8.2/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin 
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/plot/util
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/polynomial
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/audio /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/prefs
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/deprecated /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/set
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/elfun /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/signal
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/general /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/sparse
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/geometry /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/specfun
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/gui /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/special-matrix
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/help /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/startup
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/image /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/io /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics/base
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/java 
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics/distributions
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/linear-algebra 
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics/models
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/miscellaneous 
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics/tests
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/optimization /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/strings
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/path /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/testfun
/sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/time

Anybody has a suggestion whats going wrong here?

           many thanks in advance,          -Ruedi