teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Jerry wrote:

> 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?

port clean --work octave


> 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.

Instructions for removing MacPorts (after which you can reinstall  
MacPorts) are in the FAQ:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/ 
FAQ#HowdoIremoveoruninstallMacPorts

But you probably don't need to remove MacPorts.