On Oct 10, 2007, at 14:21, David Epstein wrote:
Following advice, I moved /opt/local aside and I have since been
having horrible problems.
I use latex and gv a lot.
It turned out that latex was in the old /opt/local (now /opt/
local.old) and I wasn't sure how to access it. I copied /opt/
local.old/bin/{selected items that seemed to belong to tex} to the
new /opt/local/bin. That seems to work, but will probably go wrong
when other files from the tex hierarchy are needed.
That's really not how MacPorts is supposed to be used. You should not
manually install programs into /opt/local. You should remove those
items from /opt/local again, and instead install latex using
MacPorts. Surely a port for it exists? Try "port search". If you
can't find the port, tell us exactly what software you're trying to
install (its homepage, for example) and I'll see if I can find its
port. Alternately, you could rebuild the software from source in a
different prefix, like /usr/local (bearing in mind the inherent
problems with choosing /usr/local) or any other prefix, like maybe
$HOME/bin.
Then I tried sudo port install gv and got the following response:
Script started on Wed Oct 10 20:07:56 2007
hottie:/<2>bin% sudo port install gv
---> Staging freetype into destroot
Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: shell command " cd "/
opt/local/var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/freetype-2.3.5" && make install DESTDIR=/opt/local/
var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/destroot " returned error 2
Command output: ./builds/unix/mkinstalldirs /opt/local/var/
macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/
lib \
/opt/local/var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/
pkgconfig \
/opt/local/var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype/
config \
/opt/local/var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype/
cache \
/opt/local/var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/
bin \
/opt/local/var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/share/aclocal
./builds/unix/libtool --mode=install /opt/local/bin/ginstall -
c \
/opt/local/var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/freetype-2.3.5/objs/libfreetype.la /opt/local/var/
macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_prin
t_freetype/work/destroot/opt/local/lib
./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file
or directory
./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file
or directory
*** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.
*** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.
./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file
or directory
./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file
or directory
./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file
or directory
./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file
or directory
./builds/unix/libtool: line 1: /opt/local/bin/gsed: No such file
or directory
: install: `.' must be an absolute directory name
Try ` --help --mode=install' for more information.
make: *** [install] Error 1
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ghostscript
fontconfig freetype
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
hottie:/<2>bin% exit
What do I do now? Please keep it simple, if you can.
Ok, so freetype wanted to use /opt/local/bin/gsed but it doesn't
exist. I don't have /opt/local/bin/gsed on my system either, and
freetype builds just fine. (I imagine for me it's finding and using
the system sed, /usr/bin/sed.) Perhaps you had gsed in your old /opt/
local and somehow freetype picked up on that. I don't see how though.
Please make a new Terminal window and try it again.
sudo port clean --work freetype
sudo port install freetype
If you get the same error, then do it again with debug output and
show it to us.
sudo port clean --work freetype
sudo port -dv install freetype
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