Re: Error installing packages

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:39:48 -0800, mj wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are trying to install several packages and are running into some
> difficulties.  The message we are receiving looks like this:
> 
> >> pkg install -forge io
> /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/bin/mkoctfile: line 512: 64116 Segmentation fault:
> 11  /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/bin/g++-mp-4.7 -c -fPIC
> -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include/octave-3.8.0/octave/..
> -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include/octave-3.8.0/octave
> -I/usr/local/octave/3.8.0/include -pipe -Os -m64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread
> csvexplode.cc -o csvexplode.o
> make: *** [csvexplode.oct] Error 139
> mkoctfile csvexplode.cc
> 
> pkg: error running `make' for the io package.
> error: called from 'configure_make' in file
> /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/configure_make.m
> near line 82, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m
> at line 199, column 5
> error:   /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394,
> column 9
> >>
> 
> We are running OS X 10.10.5 with Octave 3.8.0.  Any help would be
> appreciated!

It would help if you provided information about how you installed Octave
(packaging system, binary downloaded from somewhere, etc). There seem to
be many ways to install Octave on a Mac and not all of them are working
or compatible with certain versions of the OS.

With what you've given, your error looks exactly like this:

  http://stackoverflow.com/q/29358350/384593

which was solved for that user by uninstalling the binary and installing
Octave using homebrew.

-- 
mike