comparing a possibly altered file with the original

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:11:23PM -0800, David Epstein said:
[...]
> 
> I hope this posting won't arrive twice. I wrote a response, but I'm not sure
> whether I sent it, so I'm trying again.
> 
> sudo port destroot teTex
> worked without comment.

If you already have it installed, port won't rerun much on it.  You have to
force it like 'sudo port -f destroot teTeX'; though that may take a while to
run since it'll be building everything again.

After that the work dir should exist.

Bryan


> port work teTex
> gave the response
> 
> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print_teTeX/work
> 
> Note that this ends with "work". When I did "ls -alR" on this directory, I
> got
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  102 Feb 19 00:11 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  102 Feb 19 00:11 ../
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin    0 Feb 19 00:11 .macports.teTeX.state
> 
> So I have been unable to follow Rainer's advice.
> 
> David
>