macports query

[beachycove]

Last night (overnight), my G4 PowerBook running X.5.8 with the latest available Developer Tools for Leopard (3.1.3?) failed to install all components on command "sudo port install auctex". The install went fine for about half of the many required packages, but failed about half-way through, once some of the docbook-xml ports began to build.

Got (so far as it went) updated ssl, perl, and emacs out of it, but not the whole installation. I am now concerned that I may have borked something even at the level of ssl, perl and emacs, since not everything got installed.

I thought that macports was farly idiot-proof, in that it is meant to check on dependencies and install the correct version of software accordingly. So do I just need to try again, or is macports not "this-idiot"-proof, i.e., did I miss something and is this just not going to work? And do I need to uninstall anything, do you suppose?

Sorry to ask. I am not new to the Terminal, but I am not really at home in it either.

 

[beachycove]

And here is the beginning to end of the error message:

---> ... Attempting to fetch graphite2-1.2.3.tgz from http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/graphite2
--->  Verifying checksums for graphite2
--->  Extracting graphite2
--->  Applying patches to graphite2
--->  Configuring graphite2
--->  Building graphite2
Error: org.macports.build for port graphite2 returned: command execution failed
Error: Failed to install graphite2
Please see the log file for port graphite2 for details:
   /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_graphite2/graphite2/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: texlive texlive-basic texlive-bin graphite2 harfbuzz harfbuzz-icu icu libzzip xmlto coreutils gmp docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.1.2 docbook-xml-4.2 xmlcatmgr docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 docbook-xml-5.0 docbook-xsl findutils fop getopt libxslt poppler curl curl-ca-bundle gobject-introspection lcms2 openjpeg15 jbigkit poppler-data t1lib texlive-common xorg-libXaw groff netpbm jasper subversion apr apr-util cyrus-sasl2 kerberos5 libcomerr file libmagic serf1 scons psutils xorg-libXmu xpm xorg-libXp xorg-printproto texlive-bin-extra detex dvipng gd2 libvpx yasm latexdiff p5.12-algorithm-diff latexmk texlive-latex pdfjam texlive-latex-recommended pgf texlive-context texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-math-extra texlive-metapost texlive-xetex texlive-generic-recommended texlive-fontutils lcdf-typetools ps2eps t1utils texlive-lang-czechslovak texlive-lang-english texlive-lang-european texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-german texlive-lang-italian texlive-lang-polish texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-lang-spanish texlive-luatex texlive-plain-extra
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Error: Processing of port auctex failed

 

[markyb86]

Do you know if the apps that macports is installing, stores the dependency libs in the same repository or are they stored somewhere else?

It's possible the repository that it's using for the dependencies is down/outdated or moved/restructured.

 

[beachycove]

Should all be in yonder repository.

I gather from further googling that there is a glitch with graphite2 on ppc, whatever that it, or with its dependencies (cmake). Perhaps the rest in the list are then dependent on graphite2.

I don't know enough to work around this, so any advice is appreciated.

 

[markyb86]

did you already find this link about patching it so it will build?

https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/40447/graphite2-takanori.diff

 

[beachycove]

I did not. Will ponder.

As this patch is only 6 days old, is it likely that it will be incorporated into the main repository once the keeper of the keys get around to it? Or is the manual patch what we are stuck with?

 

[beachycove]

It installs now, some three months on.