teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

[Joshua Root]

Jerry wrote:
> 
> On May 1, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> The tex binary (or the link to it anyway) is provided by the texlive 
>> port, so just having texlive_texmf-minimal isn't enough.
>>
>> Jerry, I think at this point you would want to do the following, 
>> assuming you don't want to install texlive_texmf-full:
>>
>> sudo port clean --all teTeX
> 
> That went OK.
>> sudo port install texlive +minimal
> 
> This terminated with my "standard error"--a reference to non-existing 
> directories possibly caused by spaces in the path name.

Have you cleaned texlive_base since you removed the path-with-spaces?

- Josh