Installing Atlas Hangs

[jonlederman@…]

Hi,

I am trying to install Octave, upon which Atlas is a dependency. I have a recent macbook pro with SSD and plenty or RAM. The Atlas installation never finishes even though I have let my computer run for several days. It always gets stuck at the point I indicate below. How can I at least diagnose and fix this problem? Please see below.

Thank you.

Jons-MacBook-Pro-2:~ Jon$ sudo port clean atlas
Password:
--->  Cleaning atlas
Jons-MacBook-Pro-2:~ Jon$ sudo port clean atlas
--->  Cleaning atlas
Jons-MacBook-Pro-2:~ Jon$ sudo port install octave -v
--->  Computing dependencies for octave
--->  Dependencies to be installed: atlas bison m4 curl curl-ca-bundle libidn epstool ghostscript autoconf automake jbig2dec libpaper fftw-3 fftw-3-single flex gawk glpk gperf grep pcre gsed hdf5-18 less pstoedit ImageMagick djvulibre urw-fonts webp plotutils qhull qrupdate transfig netpbm jbigkit
--->  Fetching archive for atlas
--->  Attempting to fetch atlas-3.10.1_5+mpclang33.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/atlas
--->  Attempting to fetch atlas-3.10.1_5+mpclang33.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/atlas
--->  Attempting to fetch atlas-3.10.1_5+mpclang33.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/atlas
--->  Fetching distfiles for atlas
--->  Verifying checksums for atlas
--->  Extracting atlas
--->  Applying patches to atlas
--->  Configuring atlas
Selected C compiler: /opt/local/bin/clang-mp-3.3
Selected F77 compiler: gfortran48
--->  Building atlas
Jons-MacBook-Pro-2:~ Jon$ sudo port clean atlas
Password:
--->  Cleaning atlas
Jons-MacBook-Pro-2:~ Jon$ sudo port install octave -v
--->  Computing dependencies for octave
--->  Dependencies to be installed: atlas bison m4 curl curl-ca-bundle libidn epstool ghostscript autoconf automake jbig2dec libpaper fftw-3 fftw-3-single flex gawk glpk gperf grep pcre gsed hdf5-18 less pstoedit ImageMagick djvulibre urw-fonts webp plotutils qhull qrupdate transfig netpbm jbigkit
--->  Fetching archive for atlas
--->  Attempting to fetch atlas-3.10.1_5+mpclang33.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/atlas
--->  Attempting to fetch atlas-3.10.1_5+mpclang33.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/atlas
--->  Attempting to fetch atlas-3.10.1_5+mpclang33.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/atlas
--->  Fetching distfiles for atlas
--->  Verifying checksums for atlas
--->  Extracting atlas
--->  Applying patches to atlas
--->  Configuring atlas
Selected C compiler: /opt/local/bin/clang-mp-3.3
Selected F77 compiler: gfortran48
--->  Building atlas

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Atlas should take many hours to compile on modern hardware, but not days. You can check the logfile, whose location is printed by the command:

port logfile atlas

but it's possible the end of the log is truncated. You could run the install with the verbose flag to see exactly what it's doing at the time of the hang:

sudo port -v install atlas

Note that single-letter flags like -v must appear between port and the command (install in this case), and have no effect if used elsewhere on the command line.