Horrible problems after moving /opt/local aside

[David Epstein]

Following advice, I moved /opt/local aside and I have since been  
having horrible problems.
I use latex and gv a lot.
It turned out that latex was in the old /opt/local (now /opt/ 
local.old) and I wasn't sure how to access it. I copied /opt/ 
local.old/bin/{selected items that seemed to belong to tex} to the  
new /opt/local/bin. That seems to work, but will probably go wrong  
when other files from the tex hierarchy are needed.

Then I tried sudo port install gv and got the following response:

> Script started on Wed Oct 10 20:07:56 2007
> hottie:/<2>bin% sudo port install gv
>
> --->  Staging freetype into destroot
> Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: shell command " cd "/ 
> opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/freetype-2.3.5" && make install DESTDIR=/opt/local/ 
> var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/destroot " returned error 2
> Command output: ./builds/unix/mkinstalldirs /opt/local/var/macports/ 
> build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/lib                               \
>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig                     \
>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype/config \
>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype/cache  \
>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/bin                               \
>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/share/aclocal
> ./builds/unix/libtool --mode=install /opt/local/bin/ginstall - 
> c                             \
>                                   /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/freetype-2.3.5/objs/libfreetype.la /opt/local/var/ 
> macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print 
> _freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/lib
> ./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file or  
> directory
> ./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file or  
> directory
> *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.
> *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.
> ./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file or  
> directory
> ./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file or  
> directory
> ./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file or  
> directory
> ./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file or  
> directory
> ./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file or  
> directory
> : install: `.' must be an absolute directory name
> Try ` --help --mode=install' for more information.
> make: *** [install] Error 1
>
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ghostscript  
> fontconfig freetype
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> hottie:/<2>bin% exit

What do I do now? Please keep it simple, if you can.
David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk