[Pkg-octave-devel] octave2.1 FTBFS on mips

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Hi,

The package octave2.1_2.1.64-3 FTBS on mips with a most strange error
message.  From the build log[1]:

============================================================================
[...]
calling autoconf and autoheader...
./autogen.sh: line 15: /dev/null: Permission denied

You must have autoconf installed to build Octave.
Download the appropriate package for your distribution,
or get the source tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1
******************************************************************************
Build finished at 20050127-1233
FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
[...]
============================================================================

These are the lines in autogen.sh that are causing the problem:

(autoconf --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
	  echo
        echo "You must have autoconf installed to build Octave."
        echo "Download the appropriate package for your distribution,"
        echo "or get the source tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/"
        exit 1
}


The problem above does not happen in other architectures.  Could someone
with mips knowledge please explain to me what is going on?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

-- 
Rafael

[1] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=octave2.1&ver=2.1.64-3&arch=mips&stamp=1106825680&file=log&as=raw