groff 1.20.1 failing to compile

[Eamonn Kenny]

Dear Mac Ports,

Found the problem and I'd guess that this applies to a small minority of
component.

The problem I guess is a bug in Mac Ports itself. I'd guess it is
performing a system call when moving software to the distroot directory,
but this doesn't always function properly if the Makefile has something
of the form:

"cd dirA && make DESTDIR=$dirB"

because the double-quotes are wrapped (i guessing now) by other
double-quotes which doesn't make a valid system call.

Therefore MacPorts should be using single quotes, or performing some
check before running such a command.


Eamonn Kenny wrote:
> Dear MacPorts,
>
> I'm attempting to install doxygen which requires groff on Snow Leopard.
> It fails with error:
>
> test -d
> /Users/autobuild/.macports/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_svn.macports.org_trunk_dports_sysutils_groff/work/destroot/opt/local/share/groff/site-font
> \
>       || /bin/sh
> /Users/autobuild/.macports/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_svn.macports.org_trunk_dports_sysutils_groff/work/groff-1.20.1/mkinstalldirs
> /Users/autobuild/.macports/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_svn.macports.org_trunk_dports_sysutils_groff/work/destroot/opt/local/share/groff/site-font
> mkdir
> /Users/autobuild/.macports/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_svn.macports.org_trunk_dports_sysutils_groff/work/destroot/opt/local/share/groff/site-font
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: graphviz gd2 xpm
> xorg-libX11 groff xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto
> xorg-libXau xorg-xproto xorg-libXdmcp xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto
> xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans pango Xft2 xrender
> xorg-renderproto cairo libpixman urw-fonts xorg-libXaw xorg-libXext
> xorg-libXmu xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> However, if I do the following:
>
> cd
> /Users/autobuild/.macports/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_svn.macports.org_trunk_dports_sysutils_groff/work/
> sudo make install
>
> It will complete the install step without an error. Why then when I run:
>
> sudo port -v install groff
>
> do I still get the errors shown above?
>
>
>   


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