Groff won't install

[mlitteken@…]

On lion, when installing graphviz, port fails on installing groff. (MacPorts 2.0.3, GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin11)). I've attached the main.log from the failure. This happens even when groff is cleaned immediately beforehand.

sudo port install groff
--->  Computing dependencies for groff
--->  Fetching archive for groff
--->  Attempting to fetch groff-1.21_1.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/groff
--->  Fetching groff
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for groff
--->  Extracting groff
--->  Applying patches to groff
--->  Configuring groff
--->  Building groff
--->  Staging groff into destroot
Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for groff is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_groff/groff/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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[mlitteken@…]

groff main.log after error

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Comparing your output to mine, I see the last command was:

:info:destroot install-info --info-dir=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_groff/groff/work/destroot/opt/local/share/info \
:info:destroot 	  /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_groff/groff/work/destroot/opt/local/share/info/groff.info

On my system this produces no output, indicating success, but on yours we see:

:info:destroot install-info(/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_groff/groff/work/destroot/opt/local/share/info/groff.info): no backup file /var/backups/infodir.bak available.
:info:destroot install-info(/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_groff/groff/work/destroot/opt/local/share/info/groff.info): no default file /usr/share/base-files/info.dir available, giving up.
:info:destroot * Groff: (groff). The GNU troff document formatting system.
:info:destroot make[2]: *** [install_data] Error 1
:info:destroot make[2]: Target `do_install' not remade because of errors.
:info:destroot make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_groff/groff/work/groff-1.21/doc'
:info:destroot make[1]: *** [doc] Error 2

On my system I don't have any files /var/backups/infodir.bak or /usr/share/base-files/info.dir either, so that doesn't appear to be the problem.

The install-info program is part of the texinfo port, which I have installed, but which is not listed as a dependency of groff, so you might not have it, in which case on your system it would be using the install-info that's part of OS X. On my Snow Leopard system this still works, but maybe the version on Lion is different.

Try installing the texinfo port, cleaning groff and trying again. If that works we can add the texinfo dependency to the port.

[mlitteken@…]

Yes, that resolved it. groff installed fine after texinfo was in place. Thanks so much!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

r88630.