Octave install failed

[wcbeard]

I installed Octave earlier, while I had some Macports remnants installed, but gnuplot failed (it appeared to be looking for some libcurse... something in the Macports area that didn't exist). So I uninstalled and tried to reinstall, but it's failed about 3 times. I cleaned out the rest of Macports and took some other recommendations from the brew doctor to no avail.

I didn't update Xcode since I'm not sure how to get Xcode 4 without paying for it, but thought I'd submit this issue in case it's helpful. I'm hoping not to be defamed to my mom.

The gist is 950585.

-Chris

[adamv]

Please post an HTTP link to the gist.

[wcbeard]

https://gist.github.com/950585

[adamv]

Can you post the entire gist, including the verbose "configure" output at the time of the formula?

Also, if you have a lcms.pc file in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig or /opt/lib/pkgconfig, please gist that as well.

[wcbeard]

Gist said the output was too large, but I put up more from the beginning. Should I make another gist file with the rest, or is this enough?

https://gist.github.com/957196

[adamv]

Will need you to do brew update and then gist your brew doctor and the very end of brew install -v .... Post these if this is still an issue.

[wcbeard]

I brew update d it, and did the other things. The gist is here; I wasn't sure how little of the brew install output, so I pasted everything that was on the iTerm screen.

[adamv]

A non-Homebrew version of little-cms is being picked up:

can't read /opt/local/lib/liblcms.la: No such file or directory

Might need to mv /opt /ignoreme for a while and see if that works; Octave's config script is looking in this other folder as well.

[wcbeard]

I moved the /opt (which is empty) to a new folder /ignoreme in the root directory, and tried to brew install it again, but it gave similar errors:

grep: /opt/local/lib/liblcms.la: No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/gsed: can't read /opt/local/lib/liblcms.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/opt/local/lib/liblcms.la' is not a valid libtool archive

[wcbeard]

I suspected that there was a problem with graphicsmagick (dependency for Octave), so I uninstalled it and after trying a couple times got Octave to install. But now brew doctor tells me

 ==> You have uncommitted modifications to Homebrew core
 Unless you know what you are doing, you should: git reset --hard

I tried git reset --hard from /usr/local/ but it didn't help. Where should I reset it from?

[Sharpie]

I tried git reset --hard from /usr/local/ but it didn't help. Where should I reset it from?

If you don't have any personal modifications to the master branch that you want to save:

cd `brew --prefix`
git checkout master
git reset --hard origin/master

[wcbeard]

Hmm...something seems amiss, but I doubt it's a big deal.

~$ cd `brew --prefix`
/usr/local$ git checkout master
Already on 'master'
/usr/local$ git reset --hard origin/master
HEAD is now at 82f85cd ffmpegthumbnailer: Update to 2.0.7
/usr/local$ brew doctor 
==> You have uncommitted modifications to Homebrew core
Unless you know what you are doing, you should: git reset --hard

/usr/local$ 

[Sharpie]

Ahh... you probably have untracked stuff in ``brew --prefix/Library/Contributions/examples---these "external commands" can overlay the core brew commands.

[wcbeard]

I have these things there but I'm not sure what they are. Can I just leave them there, or do they need to be deleted?

brew-audit.rb*
brew-bottle.rb*
brew-depstree.rb*
brew-dirty.rb*
brew-fetch.rb*
brew-graph*
brew-grep*
brew-leaves.rb*
brew-linkapps.rb*
brew-man*
brew-mirror-check.rb*
brew-missing.rb*
brew-options.rb*
brew-pull.rb*
brew-readall.rb*
brew-server*
brew-switch.rb*
brew-test.rb*
brew-unpack.rb*
brew-which.rb*

[Sharpie]

cd to that directory and run git clean -fn to see which files are untracked. Run git clean -f to remove them.

Some of these commands, such as brew-audit and brew-fetch have graduated to proper core commands. Others are simply provided but are either unsupported, undocumented or tools that the devs wrote as one-off hacks to help with certain situations.

[Sharpie]

Also, see the "External Commands" wiki page for a description of what they do:

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands

[wcbeard]

Thanks. I got rid of those, but looks like there's more. Unless these are critical I guess I'll clean them too to satisfy the doctor.

Would remove Library/Aliases/sshfs
Would remove Library/Formula/allegro.rb
Would remove Library/Formula/distribute.rb
Would remove Library/Formula/ncursesw.rb
Would remove Library/Formula/pip.rb
Would remove Library/Homebrew/beer_events.rb
Would remove Library/Homebrew/brew.h.rb
Would remove Library/Homebrew/brew_doctor.rb
Would remove Library/Homebrew/update.rb