teTeX and this not old Mac

[Rainer Müller]

Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> Building teTeX fails on a mac which was migrated to from an old Mac,  
> with this amazing stuff in configs:
> 
> ./texk/xdvik/Makefile:x_ldflags=-L/usr/local (from old Mac)/lib  -L/ 
> usr/X11/lib
> 
> -- then libtool fails on a ) !

We documented similar errors here:
<http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#Aportfailedtobuildwithamessagereferringto1lib:Nosuchfileordirectory>

The only solution I know about is to rename or move that directory.

> How on Earth does it decide to use -L/usr/local (from old Mac)/lib --  
> and how do we prevent it from doing so?  Now, I have the sources  
> downloaded, how do I tell it to somehow forget the old Mac and  
> reconfigure?

You can use 'port clean <portname>' to start from the beginning.

Rainer