texlive-bin compilation error

[bgedik@…]

I run into the following errors when installing texlive-bin

:info:build tex-file.c: In function 'kpathsea_init_format':
:info:build tex-file.c:489: error: 'DEFAULT_GFFONTS' undeclared (first use in this function)
:info:build tex-file.c:489: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
:info:build tex-file.c:489: error: for each function it appears in.)
:info:build tex-file.c:496: error: 'DEFAULT_PKFONTS' undeclared (first use in this function)
:info:build tex-file.c:503: error: 'DEFAULT_GLYPHFONTS' undeclared (first use in this function)
.....

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Are you using an Estonian locale?

[bgedik@…]

Replying to dports@…:

Are you using an Estonian locale?

No. en_US.utf-8

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Too bad, I had a good theory going about why it would fail in Estonia. Can you provide a debug log?

[bgedik@…]

Log file with the compilation error

[bgedik@…]

Ok, I cleaned it, and installed again. Got the same problem. I attached the log file. Please let me know if you need some other log. I am not deeply knowledgeable in Mac ports. I was just trying to get my ports updated, and got stuck with this one. Thanks for the attention.

[bgedik@…]

The following lines look suspicious to me:

1227	:debug:patch Executing proc-post-org.macports.patch-patch-0
1228	:debug:patch delete: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_tex_texlive-bin/work/texlive-20100720-source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf

Once texmf.cnf is deleted, then the paths.h file will not be properly generated as part of configure, thus the errors. When I go to the build dir, I see texmf.cnf empty, where as it has the proper env vars defined in the original source. I hope this is not a red herring, but looking at the following lines in configure, I am pretty sure this is the issue:

:info:build Making all in texk/kpathsea
1720	:info:build echo "/* paths.h: Generated from texmf.cnf. */" >paths.tmp
1721	:info:build awk -f ./bsnl.awk ./texmf.cnf \
1722	:info:build     | sed -e 's/%.*//' -e 's/^[     ]*//' -e 's/[   ]*$//' \
1723	:info:build     | grep '^[      ]*[A-Z0-9_]*[   =]' \
1724	:info:build     | sed '/^$/d' \
1725	:info:build     | sed 's/^\([^  =]*\)[  ]*=*[   ]*\(.*\)/#ifndef DEFAULT_\1%#define DEFAULT_\1 "\2"%#endif/' \
1726	:info:build     | tr '%' '\012' \
1727	:info:build     | sed -e 's%\$TEXMFCONFIG%/nonesuch/texmfconfig%g' \
1728	:info:build           -e 's%\$TEXMFDIST%/nonesuch/texmfdist%g' \
1729	:info:build           -e 's%\$TEXMFDOCDIR%/nonesuch/texmfdocdir%g' \
1730	:info:build           -e 's%\$TEXMFLOCAL%/nonesuch/texmflocal%g' \
1731	:info:build           -e 's%\$TEXMFMAIN%/nonesuch/texmfmain%g' \
1732	:info:build           -e 's%\$TEXMFSYSCONFIG%/nonesuch/texmfsysconfig%g' \
1733	:info:build           -e 's%\$TEXMFSYSVAR%/nonesuch/texmfsysvar%g' \
1734	:info:build           -e 's%\$TEXMFVAR%/nonesuch/texmfvar%g' \
1735	:info:build           -e 's%\$TEXMF%/nonesuch/texmf%g' \
1736	:info:build           -e 's%\$VARTEXFONTS%/nonesuch/vartexfonts%g' \
1737	:info:build     | sed -e 's%;%:%g' \
1738	:info:build     >>paths.tmp
1739	:info:build cp paths.tmp paths.h

I am not familiar with the patching process, so no idea why texmf.cnf is messed with.

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Yes, the problem seems to be related to generating paths.h from texmf.cnf.

The patch phase deletes the texmf.cnf included in the texlive tarball, then immediately replaces it with a symlink to /opt/local/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf which is generated by texlive-common. Is this the file that's empty?

[bgedik@…]

You are right. It is a sym link to /opt/local/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and that file is empty in my case.

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Something is wrong with your installation of texlive-common. Try uninstalling and reinstalling that?

[bgedik@…]

Right. That solved it. Apparently texlive-common was the problem. Thanks for the help.

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

No problem. Glad it's working now.

[someuser12]

I had the same problem, just doing a standard upgrade on Mac OS 10.5. Uninstalling and reinstalling texlive-common solved it. On a different machine, running Mac OS 10.6, I didn't have the problem but I don't know why.