trouble building octave-forge: build system issues?

[Quentin Armitage]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 17:35 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of octave-forge and, I've been beating my head
> against the wall trying to build octave-forge against the new octave
> 3.2.2 in rawhide.  
>  so if somebody
> else could attempt to build the package on a true rawhide machine
> outside the koji build system, that would be great.
> 
I've attempted a build on an i686 Rawhide system (not using Mock), and
it failed as follows:
+ for dir in '*.[0-9]'
+ cd generate_html-0.0.9
+ make install TMPDIR=/var/tmp
DESTDIR=/u/home/hsn/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/octave-forge-20090607-8.fc12.i386
DISTPKG=redhat
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
mkdir (/var/tmp/oct-UjZEGb)
untar (/var/tmp/generate_html-0.0.9.tar.gz, /var/tmp/oct-UjZEGb)

warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
+ cd ..
+ for dir in '*.[0-9]'
+ cd integration-1.0.7
+ make install TMPDIR=/var/tmp
DESTDIR=/u/home/hsn/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/octave-forge-20090607-8.fc12.i386
DISTPKG=redhat
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
mkdir (/var/tmp/oct-R9mDsz)
untar (/var/tmp/integration-1.0.7.tar.gz, /var/tmp/oct-R9mDsz)

warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
+ cd ..
+ for dir in '*.[0-9]'
+ cd java-1.2.6
+ make install TMPDIR=/var/tmp
DESTDIR=/u/home/hsn/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/octave-forge-20090607-8.fc12.i386
DISTPKG=redhat
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
mkdir (/var/tmp/oct-FZRCZp)
untar (/var/tmp/java-1.2.6.tar.gz, /var/tmp/oct-FZRCZp)
error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of
Octave's index type -- eval failed
load: file
`/u/home/hsn/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/octave-forge-20090607-8.fc12.i386/usr/share/octave/octave_packages' seems to be empty!
error: called from `pkg>installed_packages' in
file /usr/share/octave/3.2.2/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1852, column 21

warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
error: can't perform indexing operations for cs-list type
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
/bin/sh: line 25: /packinfo/on_uninstall.m: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 26: /packinfo/on_uninstall.m: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 27: /packinfo/on_uninstall.m: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 28: /packinfo/dist_admin: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 29: /packinfo/dist_admin: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 30: /packinfo/dist_admin: No such file or directory
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/bin/sh: line 38: /packinfo/dist_admin: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 39: /packinfo/dist_admin: No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/packinfo/dist_admin': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.lIUUiE (%install)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.lIUUiE (%install)
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