teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

[Jerry]

On May 1, 2008, at 9:16 PM, Jerry wrote:
>
> 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).

In case it's important, my PATH is
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/ada-4.3/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/ 
bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/Applications
Jerry
>>
>> 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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