teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

[Jerry]

On May 1, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On May 1, 2008, at 5:37 PM, 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.  
>> Just for completeness, here it is again:
>>
>>
>> /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_base
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> You could try searching every file in /opt/local to see which ones  
> contain the string "before Dec 12, 2007"

Sorry for the confusion. I explained in one of my earlier posts that  
the string "before Dec 12, 2007" was the name of a directory in /usr/ 
local which I subsequently deleted upon encountering the current  
problem. The directory was called either "before Dec 12, 2007" or  
most likely "ada-4.3 before Dec 12, 2007" which contained most of the  
gcc compilers including Ada 4.3. I had apparently renamed the folder  
before doing a fresh installation of the compilers, probably on that  
date, then forgot to trash it when things were going well. I don't  
know how macports found it; also, there were two other Ada compilers  
in the /usr/local, called ada-4.2 and ada-4.3, the latter being on my  
PATH variable (but not the one with "before Dec 12, 2007" in it).
>
> grep "before Dec 12, 2007" -r /opt/local
>
> Then using "port provides /path/to/file" you can figure out which  
> port provided that file and then reinstall that port...
>
>> Unless someone has another idea, I think I'll start from scratch.  
>> I assume I can just delete /opt/local
>
> If this is not too inconvenient for you, it would be the surest way  
> to resolve the problem... To uninstall MacPorts, you should delete  
> all directories into which MacPorts might potentially install, not  
> just /opt/local. See the uninstall instructions in the FAQ:
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/ 
> FAQ#HowdoIremoveoruninstallMacPorts
>
>
>> but there is probably a way to delete only installed ports without  
>> deleting the port system itself.
>
> To do it that way, for each installed port foo (see "port  
> installed"), run "sudo port -f uninstall foo".
>
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