a2ps fails to install (compressed log attached)

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Bill;

Here is some more information:

ls -ld /opt/local/bin/makeinfo
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  8 Dec  9 19:36 /opt/local/bin/makeinfo -> texi2any

port list texinfo
texinfo                        @7.0.1          textproc/texinfo

ls -ld /opt/local/bin/texi2any
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  68708 Dec  9 19:36 /opt/local/bin/texi2any

port contents texinfo | grep texi2any
  /opt/local/bin/texi2any
  /opt/local/share/info/texi2any_api.info
  /opt/local/share/info/texi2any_internals.info
  /opt/local/share/man/man1/texi2any.1.gz

I've never created a MacPorts bug report before; guess it is time to
learn how to do that :-)

Thanks,
Ken

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 1:28 PM Bill Cole
<macportsusers-20171215 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-12-19 at 15:03:35 UTC-0500 (Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:03:35 -0800)
> Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com>
> is rumored to have said:
>
> > Hi;
> >
> >   a2ps fails to install (compressed log attached).
> >
> > one item I noticed (several instances:
> > :info:destroot /bin/sh: /usr/bin/makeinfo: No such file or directory
> >
> > Does this mean that there is a missing dependency?
>
> It looks like it's saying that the version of 'makeinfo' that has
> historically been included in macOS is not present.
>
> That seems like something Apple might have done in a recent version, as
> they have been removing GNU tools pretty aggressively. It was still
> there in Catalina (which is as far as I've ventured...)
>
> If it really is gone, you can get a version by installing the 'texinfo'
> port, but it won't be at that path and it won't be whatever version
> Apple last had in the base system. However, it might be noticed and used
> by the a2ps configure stage and if so, should work. I expect that the
> proper solution will be to add texinfo as a dependency.
>
>
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