teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

[Jerry]

(OP responding to 3-4 helpful suggestions from others in this thread)

I edited the portfile as suggested to install texlive rather than  
tetex. That results in this, when I re-try installing Octave:

/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -o xdvi-xaw.bin 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 before Dec 12, 2007/lib  -L/opt/local/ 
lib ./gui/libgui.a ../../libs/t1lib/libt1.a ../../libs/t1lib/../type1/ 
libtype1.a -L/usr/local/ada-4.3 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXaw -lXmu -lXt - 
lSM -lICE -lXp -lXext -lXpm -lX11 -liconv ../kpathsea/.libs/ 
libkpathsea.a -lm
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: before: No such file or directory
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: Dec: No such file or directory
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: 12,: No such file or directory
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: 2007/lib: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [xdvi-xaw.bin] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: texlive  
texlive_base texlive_texmf-full
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.


The error seems to come from (1) My having a crufty Ada + other gcc  
compilers installation in a directory called, probably in part,  
"before Dec 12, 2007", (2) the installer for some reason _finding_ it  
and (3) spaces in the path name going into an unquoted path string  
somewhere. It was parallel to my "good" Ada installation but not in  
my PATH variable. Hmmm.... So I de-crufted by trashing it, and still  
get the above error. I'm guessing that the installer script is still  
remembering that bad path. How do I restart the Octave installation?

FWIW, I started a thread on problems installing PLplot also, and  
(after a clean jpeg operation that was suggested by an earlier  
failure) with the (nearly?) exact same problem with the same pathname- 
with-spaces at "--->  Building texlive_base with target all".

I've probably terribly confused everybody so maybe I should just  
start over with these two installations now that I've gotten rid of  
the spurious compiler collection. What is the best way to do that? I  
have only one other macport installed, binutils.

Thanks,
Jerry




On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:22 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
> Citando James Sumners :
>> I recommend changing the dependency to texlive and rebuilding. teTeX
>> is obsolete.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, texlive will probably fail with the same error:
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13396
>
> milosh
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