texlive_base failed to build

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 18, 2008, at 11:51, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:

> 	I completely uninstalled texlive and texlive_base and then installed
> using the -d and outputting to a log file.  As I previously noted and
> subsequently suspected,, xetexdir/XeTeXFontMgr_Mac.mm is the only
> file that uses an unprefixed gcc to compile.  The log file
> verification is as follows:
>
> gcc -ObjC++ -I../../libs/icu-xetex/common -I./../../libs/icu-xetex/
> common -I./../../libs/icu-xetex/layout -DLE_USE_CMEMORY -I/opt/local/
> include -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I. -I. -I.. -
> I./..  -isystem/opt/local/include -I../../libs/obsdcompat -I../../
> libs/obsdcompat/.. -I./../../libs/obsdcompat -I./../../libs/
> obsdcompat/..  -DXETEX_MAC -c xetexdir/XeTeXFontMgr_Mac.mm -o
> XeTeXFontMgr_Mac.o
>
> 	The situations is that with /opt/local/bin at the head of the path,
> the search for gcc will result in the /opt/local/bin gcc being used
> if installed which will be gcc-mt-4.3.2.
>
> 	To verify that the command is generated during ./configure, I
> unpacked texlive_base in my desktop directory, found the directory,
> and ensured that Makefile did not exist.  I then ran ./configure and
> generated Makefile.  The generated Makefile had the unprefixed
> command.  This looks like an author problem because I do not want to
> mess around with the creation of Makefile.

Ok. Will somebody report this problem to the author of texlive?