Horrible problems after moving /opt/local aside

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 14:21, David Epstein wrote:

> 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.

That's really not how MacPorts is supposed to be used. You should not  
manually install programs into /opt/local. You should remove those  
items from /opt/local again, and instead install latex using  
MacPorts. Surely a port for it exists? Try "port search". If you  
can't find the port, tell us exactly what software you're trying to  
install (its homepage, for example) and I'll see if I can find its  
port. Alternately, you could rebuild the software from source in a  
different prefix, like /usr/local (bearing in mind the inherent  
problems with choosing /usr/local) or any other prefix, like maybe  
$HOME/bin.


> 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_prin 
>> t_freetype/work/freetype-2.3.5" && make install DESTDIR=/opt/local/ 
>> var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin 
>> t_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_prin 
>> t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/ 
>> lib                               \
>>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin 
>> t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/ 
>> pkgconfig                     \
>>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin 
>> t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ 
>> config \
>>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin 
>> t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ 
>> cache  \
>>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin 
>> t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/ 
>> bin                               \
>>                          /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin 
>> t_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_prin 
>> t_freetype/work/freetype-2.3.5/objs/libfreetype.la /opt/local/var/ 
>> macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin 
>> t_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.

Ok, so freetype wanted to use /opt/local/bin/gsed but it doesn't  
exist. I don't have /opt/local/bin/gsed on my system either, and  
freetype builds just fine. (I imagine for me it's finding and using  
the system sed, /usr/bin/sed.) Perhaps you had gsed in your old /opt/ 
local and somehow freetype picked up on that. I don't see how though.  
Please make a new Terminal window and try it again.

sudo port clean --work freetype
sudo port install freetype

If you get the same error, then do it again with debug output and  
show it to us.

sudo port clean --work freetype
sudo port -dv install freetype