octave seems to be looking for a tex font lcircle10 that I haven't seen in many years on Gentoo systems: dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008-r1/CONTENTS:obj /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/latex-fonts/lcircle10.mf 999415485733b95a5876925679d88c21 1136849901 dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008-r1/CONTENTS:obj /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/latex-fonts/lcircle10.tfm 5afbf60b3e63bc094d7931b8af2443ae 1136768653 failure: MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /dev/shm/portage/sci-mathematics/octave-4.4.1/work/octave-4.4.1/build-aux/missing makeinfo -I doc/interpreter -I ./doc/interpreter' \ texi2dvi --build-dir=doc/interpreter/octave.t2d -o doc/interpreter/octave.dvi \ `test -f 'doc/interpreter/octave.texi' || echo '/dev/shm/portage/sci-mathematics/octave-4.4.1/work/octave-4.4.1/'`doc/interpreter/octave.texi /usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken. This may be due to the environment variable TEX set to something other than (plain) tex, a corrupt texinfo.tex file, or to tex itself simply not working. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017) (preloaded format=etex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./txiversion.tex (/dev/shm/portage/sci-mathematics/octave-4.4.1/work/octave-4.4.1/build-aux/texi nfo.tex Loading texinfo [version 2018-02-12.17]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs, page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, ! Font \circle=lcircle10 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \allocationnumber \alloc@ ...ifnum \count 1#1 < #4\allocationnumber =\count 1#1 \global \advan... l.7208 \newdimen\circthick # emerge --info Portage 2.3.56 (python 2.7.14-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/developer, gcc-8.2.0, glibc-2.28-r4, 4.19.3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.19.3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2600K_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.6 KiB Mem: 32916332 total, 7354100 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Head commit of repository gentoo: 8a71e282fce0e5d3987bc427b686e9a2f8e0ac1f sh bash 4.4_p23 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.31.1 p5) 2.31.1 ccache version 3.3.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.4_p23::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.26.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14::gentoo, 3.4.6::gentoo, 3.5.4::gentoo, 3.6.1-r1::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.3.4::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.11.1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.1::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 9999::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.14::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.12.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1-r1::gentoo, 1.15.1-r2::gentoo, 1.16.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.30-r4::gentoo, 2.31.1-r3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 7.3.0-r6::gentoo, 7.4.0::gentoo, 8.2.0-r6::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r5::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r4::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.20::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.28-r4::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /code/gentoo/gentoo-git/repo/gentoo sync-type: git sync-uri: git+ssh://git@git.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo priority: -1000 usr-local location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 0 chaoslab location: /var/lib/layman/chaoslab masters: gentoo priority: 50 go-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/go-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 50 Installed sets: @tmpworld ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* @EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf /opt/openjms/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-2.0/conf /usr/share/maven-bin-2.1/conf /usr/share/maven-bin-2.2/conf /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf /usr/share/maven-bin-3.1/conf /var/bind /var/spool/munin-async/.ssh" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/gentoo/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--verbose-conflicts --complete-graph-if-new-use=n --complete-graph-if-new-ver=n --quiet-build=y --jobs=2" ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs buildpkg ccache collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox lmirror merge-sync mirror multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict test-fail-continue unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_CA en_GB en_ZA en_US en af" MAKEOPTS="-j8 -l10" PKGDIR="/home/gentoo/packages/bohr-int/" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi adns adplug agg aio alsa amd64 amr animgif ares arts audiofile audit avahi avx bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bonjour bzip2 cairo calendar cdaudio cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr chardet chm clamav cli consolekit cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cups curl curlwrappers cvs cxx d3d daap dbus dc1394 designer-plugin dia diskio djbfft djvu dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread ebook egl emf encode exif expat fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm geoip gif gimp glamor glut gmp gnokii gnutls gps graphviz gsm gstreamer hal ical iconv id3tag idea ieee1394 imagemagick imlib inkjar ipod ipv6 jack java5 java6 javacomm jbig jingle jpeg jpeg2k lash lcms ldap libgcrypt libnotify libsamplerate libtirpc llvm llvm-shared-libs lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzma lzo mad maildir mhash midi mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mng modplug mozilla mp3 mp3tunes mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib multitarget musepack nas ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg openal openexr opengl openmp oss otr pam pango pccntl pch pcre pda pdf perl plotutils png policykit posix postscript povray ppds pulseaudio python qt3support quicktime raw rdesktop readline reflection rpc rss ruby savedconfig scanner sdl seccomp semantic-desktop semantic-destkop session sid simplexml slp smp sms smux sndfile snmp sockets socks5 solver speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc taglib theora threads tidy tiff timidity truetype tta twolame udev udisks unicode upower urandom usb v4l v4l2 vcd vcdx videos vim-syntax vnc vorbis vorbis-psy wavpack wayland webkit wideband wifi win32codecs wma wmf wxwidgets x264 xanim xattr xcb xcomposite xephyr xfs xine xinerama xinetd xml xorg xosd xpm xrandr xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid xwayland zeroconf zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio usb-usx2y ad1816a ad1848 ad1848-lib ad1889 serial-u16550 virmidi seq-dummy dummy" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias asis auth_digest imagemap log_forensic proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_ftp proxy_http cern_meta cgi cgid dbd dumpio ident proxy_scgi reqtimeout substitute version authn_dbd" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc efi-32 efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse void wacom synaptics libinput" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en-CA en-GB en-US" LCD_DEVICES="g15 glk graphlcd iowarrior ncurses null png ppm text usbhub usblcd X xosd" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-1" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5 postgres10" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5 python3_6" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64 aarch64 arm i386 mips mips64 mips64el mipsel ppc ppc64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby23 ruby24 ruby25" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev ati radeon v4l vga vesa radeonhd radeonsi r600 nouveau amdgpu" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please re-open if the issue is reproduced with 5.2.0.
