Problem installing teTeX

[Ryan Schmidt]

Perhaps try searching thru your entire /usr/local and /opt/local  
directories to see if "(from old Mac)" appears anywhere.

grep "(from old Mac)" -r /usr/local 2>/dev/null
grep "(from old Mac)" -r /opt/local 2>/dev/null


On Nov 3, 2007, at 20:51, Eric Brombaugh wrote:

> Thanks for checking that. I don't have a directory '/usr/local  
> (from old Mac)/lib' on my machine, but that nomenclature sounds  
> like something that Migration Assistant might generate - possibly  
> that was added to a library list somewhere and the config process  
> picked it up from there.
>
> I understand that 'tetex is dead' and given my druthers I wouldn't  
> be installing it - it's huge and I don't directly use it.  
> Unfortunately though it is a dependency of octave, so there's no  
> choice.
>
> Eric
>
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Nov 3, 2007, at 16:49, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
>>
>>> Still trying to get octave and octave-forge installed on a  
>>> Leopard / Santa Rosa Macbook. This time the teTex install bailed  
>>> out. The relevant error is:
>>>
>>> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -o xdvi-xaw.bin -L/opt/local/ 
>>> lib   browser.o dvi-draw.o dvi-init.o dvisel.o encodings.o  
>>> events.o filehist.o font-open.o gf.o hypertex.o image-magick.o  
>>> mime.o my-snprintf.o my-vsnprintf.o pagehist.o pk.o print- 
>>> internal.o psdps.o psgs.o psheader.o psnews.o read-mapfile.o  
>>> search-internal.o special.o string-utils.o tfmload.o util.o vf.o  
>>> xdvi.o xserver-info.o x_util.o ./gui/libgui.a ../../libs/t1lib/ 
>>> libt1.a ../../libs/t1lib/../type1/libtype1.a -L/usr/local (from  
>>> old Mac)/lib  -L/usr/X11/lib   -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXp - 
>>> lXext -lX11 -liconv -lXpm  ../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la -lm
>>> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>>> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -o xdvi- 
>>> xaw.bin -L/opt/local/lib   browser.o dvi-draw.o dvi-init.o  
>>> dvisel.o encodings.o events.o filehist.o font-open.o gf.o  
>>> hypertex.o image-magick.o mime.o my-snprintf.o my-vsnprintf.o  
>>> pagehist.o pk.o print-internal.o psdps.o psgs.o psheader.o  
>>> psnews.o read-mapfile.o search-internal.o special.o string- 
>>> utils.o tfmload.o util.o vf.o xdvi.o xserver-info.o x_util.o ./ 
>>> gui/libgui.a ../../libs/t1lib/libt1.a ../../libs/t1lib/../type1/ 
>>> libtype1.a -L/usr/local (from old Mac)/lib  -L/usr/X11/lib   - 
>>> lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXp -lXext -lX11 -liconv -lXpm  ../ 
>>> kpathsea/libkpathsea.la -lm  '
>>> make[2]: *** [xdvi-xaw.bin] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
>>> make: *** [all] Error 1
>>>
>>> Digging in it appears that the 'config.cache' file wasn't cleaned  
>>> out prior to distribution and a bad definition for one of the  
>>> library paths was left in resulting in the following entry in the  
>>> xdvik Makefile:
>>>
>>> x_ldflags=-L/usr/local (from old Mac)/lib  -L/usr/X11/lib
>>>
>>> Removing the " (from old Mac) " in the Makefile allowed the build  
>>> to proceed to completion.
>>
>> tetex is distributed without a config.cache file. That file must  
>> have been generated on your machine during the build process.  
>> Also, I downloaded the tetex 3.0 source code and found no  
>> occurrences of the string "from old Mac" anywhere in it. Do you  
>> have a directory "/usr/local (from old Mac)" on your Mac? If so,  
>> try moving it elsewhere or getting rid of it. Then try "sudo port  
>> clean --work tetex" and try installing again.
>>
>> Also, note that there is a bug titled "tetex is dead" which you  
>> might want to read to see if "tetex" is really the software  
>> package you want to be using:
>>
>> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12913