Re: installing using MacPorts

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Sep 5, 2012, at 1:59 PM, JonathanF wrote:
> 
>> I've followed the instructions to install via MacPorts and it is making it
>> through
>> most of the installation until it tries to install ghostscript:
>> 
>> --->  Configuring ghostscript
>> Error: org.macports.configure for port ghostscript returned: configure
>> failure: command execution failed
>> Error: Failed to install ghostscript
>> Please see the log file for port ghostscript for details:
>> 
>> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_print_ghostscript/ghostscript/main.log
>> Error: The following dependencies were not installed: epstool ghostscript
>> flex fltk-devel gnuplot aquaterm gd2 xpm lua pango Xft2 xrender
>> xorg-renderproto cairo libpixman xorg-xcb-util gobject-introspection pdflib
>> gperf grep pcre gsed hdf5-18 less metis cmake pstoedit ImageMagick urw-fonts
>> webp xz plotutils qhull qrupdate texinfo transfig netpbm jasper jbigkit
>> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>>   http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
>> Error: Processing of port octave-local failed
>> 
>> 
>> Any ideas what is going wrong?  Thanks!
> 
> I'm seeing the same failure today.  
> 
> I checked the macports maillist and noticed a similar problem with emacs.
> 
>       
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2012-September/030457.html
> 
> The fix mentioned resolves the problem with xemacs.  In the event there has 
> been a fix pushed for ghostscript, try ...
> 
>       sudo port selfupdate
>       sudo port upgrade outdated
>       sudo port install octave-devel
> 
> I'm presently upgrading my outdated ports one at a time (others are failing 
> as well).  When done I'll selfuppdate and upgrade again.  I'm not sure when 
> I'll be done you may get a quicker resolution by  sending an email to the 
> macports user maillist.
> 
>       http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
> 
> Ben

I filed a bug report.

        https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36010

I was able to build ghostscript after activating an older automake.

        sudo port activate automake @1.11.5_0 

Ben