tesseract: failed to build on Intel/Sonoma 14.5

[mcmara (Jack McMara)]

Unable to build tesseract on Sonoma 14.5, on Intel, with Macports version v2.3.9:

$ port install tesseract
--->  Computing dependencies for tesseract
--->  Fetching distfiles for tesseract
--->  Verifying checksums for tesseract
--->  Extracting tesseract
--->  Configuring tesseract
--->  Building tesseract                                 
Error: Failed to build tesseract: command execution failed
Error: See /Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/var/macports/logs/_Users_gmarani_dev_install_macports_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_tesseract/tesseract/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there is a bug.
Error: Processing of port tesseract failed

Relevant log lines are:

:info:build asciidoc: FAILED: tesseract.1.asc: line 411: unexpected error:
:info:build asciidoc: ------------------------------------------------------------
:info:build Traceback (most recent call last):
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 5680, in asciidoc
:info:build     document.translate(has_header)  # Generate the output.
:info:build     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 1273, in translate
:info:build     Section.translate()
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 2000, in translate
:info:build     Section.translate_body()
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 2011, in translate_body
:info:build     next.translate()
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 2715, in translate
:info:build     self.translate_entry()
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 2555, in translate_entry
:info:build     self.translate_item()
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 2568, in translate_item
:info:build     writer.write_tag(self.tag.text, text, self.presubs, self.attributes, trace='list text')
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 4274, in write_tag
:info:build     self.write(content)
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 4257, in write
:info:build     self.write_line(s)
:info:build   File "/Users/gmarani/dev/install/macports/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asciidoc/asciidoc.py", line 4240, in write_line
:info:build     self.f.write((re.sub(r'\\({[a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z0-9_\-]*)', '\\1', line) or '') + self.newline)
:info:build BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
:info:build Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>
:info:build BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
:info:build make[1]: *** [doc/tesseract.1] Error 6

[mcmara (Jack McMara)]

Any suggestion or temporary workaround? This problem breaks the installation of texlive (and hence also my Latex engine).

[mcmara (Jack McMara)]

Workaround to install texlive without tesseract (see #69822):

port install dvisvgm-devel -mupdf
port install texlive