teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Jerry wrote:

> Did that. Then did sudo port install octave once again, with pretty  
> much the same results--same pathname problem. I'm getting the teTeX  
> complaint again but there is no portfile for octave to edit. Also,  
> I have texlive_texmf-minimal installed--I don't know if that  
> satisfies Octave's requirement. If so, why is it still trying to  
> install teTeX.
>
> Jerry
>
> /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 -lX11 -liconv -lXpm ../ 
> kpathsea/.libs/libkpathsea.a -lmpowerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1:  
> before: No such file or directorypowerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1:  
> Dec: No such file or directorypowerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: 12,:  
> No such file or directorypowerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: 2007/lib:  
> No such file or directorymake[2]: *** [xdvi-xaw.bin] Error 1make 
> [1]: *** [all] Error 1make: *** [all] Error 1
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: teTeX

Oh, wait, it's the teTeX port that's having this issue, not the  
octave port. So it's the teTeX port you'd need to clean to fix it.

Still, not sure why it's trying to install teTeX if you already have  
texlive. The octave port is written to only care if there is a binary  
named "tex", not which port provided it. If you have a tex in /opt/ 
local/bin that should be enough.