octave-general - cannot rename folder.

[gjolleyrogers (Garry Jolley-Rogers)]

Confused. Probably simply an oversight on my part. But I can't seem to reinstall octave-general and friends.

I updated Xcode to latest, found some problems with MacPort installation, thought I would just reinstall all ports. And well no joy. Probably something simple but beyond me. cleaned port and reinstalled several times. Folder exists.

OS 10.14.6, Xcode 11

-->  Computing dependencies for octave-general
--->  Fetching archive for octave-general
--->  Attempting to fetch octave-general-2.1.0_4.darwin_18.x86_64.tbz2 from http://nou.nc.packages.macports.org/pub/macports/packages.macports.org/octave-general
--->  Attempting to fetch octave-general-2.1.0_4.darwin_18.x86_64.tbz2 from http://kmq.jp.packages.macports.org/octave-general
--->  Attempting to fetch octave-general-2.1.0_4.darwin_18.x86_64.tbz2 from http://jog.id.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/octave-general
--->  Extracting octave-general
Error: Failed to extract octave-general: error renaming "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_math_octave-general/octave-general/work/general
general-2.1.0": no such file or directory

[gjolleyrogers (Garry Jolley-Rogers)]

octave-general install logs

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

This seems to be an issue with the octave PortGroup under MacPorts 2.6.0.

I can replicate this error under Mojave with Xcode 10.3.

[gjolleyrogers (Garry Jolley-Rogers)]

+ 1 occurs for other octave ports

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

Not thoroughly tested, but the patched octave Port Group worked for the baker's dozen of octave packages I tried to build.

[gjolleyrogers (Garry Jolley-Rogers)]

sadly not for me. octave itself now builds but

sudo port install  octave-io octave-struct octave-miscellaneous octave-gsl octave-geometry octave-optim octave-statistics       

fails with same error as previously occurred for octave.

is there something I should do?

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

Replying to gjolleyrogers:

sadly not for me. octave itself now builds but

sudo port install  octave-io octave-struct octave-miscellaneous octave-gsl octave-geometry octave-optim octave-statistics       

fails with same error as previously occurred for octave.

is there something I should do?

I just installed all the octave packages you listed on a freshly installed Mojave machine (Xcode 10.3).

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

See: ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/5473

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Just for future reference, the problem seems to be new base code that helpfully tries to make sure $worksrcpath always exists.

[Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)]

In 98ecb0df3acd4609d01c59b5ffa755517fabb533/macports-ports (master):

octave-1.0 PG: fix cannot rename folder issue.

See: #59111

[gjolleyrogers (Garry Jolley-Rogers)]

many thanks.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I had previously filed this as #58665.