Re: teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

2008-04-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Jerry wrote: Did that. Then did sudo port install octave once again, with pretty much the same results--same pathname problem. I'm getting the teTeX complaint again but there is no portfile for octave to edit. Also, I have texlive_texmf-minimal installed--I don

Re: teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

2008-04-30 Thread Jerry
On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Apr 30, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Jerry wrote: The error seems to come from (1) My having a crufty Ada + other gcc compilers installation in a directory called, probably in part, "before Dec 12, 2007", (2) the installer for some reason _finding_

Re: teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

2008-04-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 30, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Jerry wrote: The error seems to come from (1) My having a crufty Ada + other gcc compilers installation in a directory called, probably in part, "before Dec 12, 2007", (2) the installer for some reason _finding_ it and (3) spaces in the path name going into an u

Re: teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

2008-04-30 Thread Jerry
On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Jerry wrote: FWIW, I started a thread on problems installing PLplot also, and (after a clean jpeg operation that was suggested by an earlier failure) with the (nearly?) exact same problem with the same pathname-with-spaces at "---> Building texlive_base with ta

Re: teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

2008-04-30 Thread Jerry
(OP responding to 3-4 helpful suggestions from others in this thread) I edited the portfile as suggested to install texlive rather than tetex. That results in this, when I re-try installing Octave: /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -o xdvi-xaw.bin browser.o dvi-draw.o dvi-init.o dvisel.o encodings.o events.

Re: port variants

2008-04-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 30, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Charles darwin wrote: $ port variant foo foo has the variants: * darwin_* What does it mean to install port foo +darwin_[6-9] as opposed to simply port foo? i.e. $ sudo port install foo #vs. $sudo port install foo +darwin_* The darwin_*, i386,

port variants

2008-04-30 Thread Charles darwin
$ port variant foo foo has the variants: * darwin_* What does it mean to install port foo +darwin_[6-9] as opposed to simply port foo? i.e. $ sudo port install foo #vs. $sudo port install foo +darwin_* Regards, ___ macports-users

Re: Coreutils and The State of Oblivion

2008-04-30 Thread Charles darwin
On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Chris Janton wrote: On 2008-04-30 , at 05:56 , Charles darwin wrote: I just installed `coreutils' but it seems that it doesn't effect which utils (cp, df, du, ls …) are default. i.e. $ which cp /bin/cp $ which ls /bin/ls $ which df /bin/df $ which du /usr/bin/d

Re: Coreutils and The State of Oblivion

2008-04-30 Thread Chris Janton
On 2008-04-30 , at 05:56 , Charles darwin wrote: I just installed `coreutils' but it seems that it doesn't effect which utils (cp, df, du, ls …) are default. i.e. $ which cp /bin/cp $ which ls /bin/ls $ which df /bin/df $ which du /usr/bin/du $ What is going on? What am I missing? sudo po

Re: teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

2008-04-30 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando James Sumners : > I recommend changing the dependency to texlive and rebuilding. teTeX > is obsolete. > Unfortunately, texlive will probably fail with the same error: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13396 milosh ___ macports

Re: Coreutils and The State of Oblivion

2008-04-30 Thread Joshua Root
Charles darwin wrote: I just installed `coreutils' but it seems that it doesn't effect which utils (cp, df, du, ls …) are default. i.e. $ which cp /bin/cp $ which ls /bin/ls $ which df /bin/df $ which du /usr/bin/du $ What is going on? What am I missing? Running 'port contents coreutils' an

Re: Coreutils and The State of Oblivion

2008-04-30 Thread Michael Hernandez
Try which -a the which util only shows the first find in the PATH by default. --Mike H On Apr 30, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Charles darwin wrote: I just installed `coreutils' but it seems that it doesn't effect which utils (cp, df, du, ls …) are default. i.e. $ which cp /bin/cp $ which ls /bin/ls

teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

2008-04-30 Thread Joshua Root
James Sumners wrote: I recommend changing the dependency to texlive and rebuilding. teTeX is obsolete. Jerry: you don't actually have to edit anything, just install texlive. Octave's TeX dependency will then be satisfied and installing Octave won't first try to install teTeX. - Josh ___

Coreutils and The State of Oblivion

2008-04-30 Thread Charles darwin
I just installed `coreutils' but it seems that it doesn't effect which utils (cp, df, du, ls …) are default. i.e. $ which cp /bin/cp $ which ls /bin/ls $ which df /bin/df $ which du /usr/bin/du $ What is going on? What am I missing? Regards,___ macp

Re: Unable to Install py-gtk2

2008-04-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 29, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Morgan Sutherland wrote: That didn't work; same error. Ok, then I'm not sure what to do next, sorry. I don't know much about the gtk ports. All I know is gtk-doc installed successfully on my system just a few weeks ago. I'm pretty sure that it's more than gt