texlive_base failed to build

[Frank J. R. Hanstick]

Hello,
	I do not know who the author is and I am not on their mailing list.
Frank

On Oct 18, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> 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?
>