Problem installing teTeX

[Eric Brombaugh]

Thanks for checking that. I don't have a directory '/usr/local (from  
old Mac)/lib' on my machine, but that nomenclature sounds like  
something that Migration Assistant might generate - possibly that was  
added to a library list somewhere and the config process picked it up  
from there.

I understand that 'tetex is dead' and given my druthers I wouldn't be  
installing it - it's huge and I don't directly use it. Unfortunately  
though it is a dependency of octave, so there's no choice.

Eric

On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Nov 3, 2007, at 16:49, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
>
>> Still trying to get octave and octave-forge installed on a  
>> Leopard / Santa Rosa Macbook. This time the teTex install bailed  
>> out. The relevant error is:
>>
>> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -o xdvi-xaw.bin -L/opt/local/ 
>> lib   browser.o dvi-draw.o dvi-init.o dvisel.o encodings.o events.o  
>> filehist.o font-open.o gf.o hypertex.o image-magick.o mime.o my- 
>> snprintf.o my-vsnprintf.o pagehist.o pk.o print-internal.o psdps.o  
>> psgs.o psheader.o psnews.o read-mapfile.o search-internal.o  
>> special.o string-utils.o tfmload.o util.o vf.o xdvi.o xserver- 
>> info.o x_util.o ./gui/libgui.a ../../libs/t1lib/libt1.a ../../libs/ 
>> t1lib/../type1/libtype1.a -L/usr/local (from old Mac)/lib  -L/usr/ 
>> X11/lib   -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXp -lXext -lX11 -liconv - 
>> lXpm  ../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la -lm
>> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -o xdvi- 
>> xaw.bin -L/opt/local/lib   browser.o dvi-draw.o dvi-init.o dvisel.o  
>> encodings.o events.o filehist.o font-open.o gf.o hypertex.o image- 
>> magick.o mime.o my-snprintf.o my-vsnprintf.o pagehist.o pk.o print- 
>> internal.o psdps.o psgs.o psheader.o psnews.o read-mapfile.o search- 
>> internal.o special.o string-utils.o tfmload.o util.o vf.o xdvi.o  
>> xserver-info.o x_util.o ./gui/libgui.a ../../libs/t1lib/ 
>> libt1.a ../../libs/t1lib/../type1/libtype1.a -L/usr/local (from old  
>> Mac)/lib  -L/usr/X11/lib   -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXp -lXext - 
>> lX11 -liconv -lXpm  ../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la -lm  '
>> make[2]: *** [xdvi-xaw.bin] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 1
>>
>> Digging in it appears that the 'config.cache' file wasn't cleaned  
>> out prior to distribution and a bad definition for one of the  
>> library paths was left in resulting in the following entry in the  
>> xdvik Makefile:
>>
>> x_ldflags=-L/usr/local (from old Mac)/lib  -L/usr/X11/lib
>>
>> Removing the " (from old Mac) " in the Makefile allowed the build  
>> to proceed to completion.
>
> tetex is distributed without a config.cache file. That file must  
> have been generated on your machine during the build process. Also,  
> I downloaded the tetex 3.0 source code and found no occurrences of  
> the string "from old Mac" anywhere in it. Do you have a directory "/ 
> usr/local (from old Mac)" on your Mac? If so, try moving it  
> elsewhere or getting rid of it. Then try "sudo port clean --work  
> tetex" and try installing again.
>
> Also, note that there is a bug titled "tetex is dead" which you  
> might want to read to see if "tetex" is really the software package  
> you want to be using:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12913
>