ffmpeg fails to install - touch: no such file or directory

[jean_seb@…]

While installing gimp, ffmpeg (which is one of its dependencies) fails to install. There seems to be a missing file in its documentation.

(note that having seen ticket #14490, I was trying to install gimp with the -d flag, i.e. sudo port -d install gimp, which is why you will see debug messages below)

Here are the last few lines of the output I got.

[...]
DEBUG: installing directory: /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share
DEBUG: installing directory: /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc
DEBUG: installing file: /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/avutil.txt
DEBUG: installing file: /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/faq.html
DEBUG: installing file: /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-doc.html
DEBUG: installing file: /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_powerpc_performance_evaluation_howto.txt
DEBUG: installing file: /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffplay-doc.html
DEBUG: installing file: /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html
Error: Target org.macports.install returned: touch: /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html: No such file or directory
Warning: the following items did not execute (for ffmpeg): org.macports.activate org.macports.install
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gimp-app gimp2 gegl ffmpeg graphviz fontconfig freetype gd2 jpeg libpng xpm pango Xft2 cairo libpixman urw-fonts xorg-libXaw xorg-libXmu xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice gtk2 atk gtk-doc docbook-xml-4.3 xmlcatmgr docbook-xsl gnome-doc-utils docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.1.2 docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 docbook-xml-5.0 iso-codes libxslt libxml2 p5-xml-parser py25-libxml2 python25 gdbm tk tcl xorg-libXScrnSaver xorg-scrnsaverproto rarian getopt intltool gnome-common jasper shared-mime-info tiff xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto libopenraw boost boost-jam librsvg libart_lgpl libcroco libgsf gnome-vfs desktop-file-utils popt gconf orbit2 libidl policykit gnome-mime-data libbonobo libspiro lua openexr ilmbase w3m boehmgc libexif libgnomeui gnome-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme icon-naming-utils p5-xml-simple p5-xml-namespacesupport p5-xml-sax gnome-keyring libgcrypt libgpg-error libtasn1 libbonoboui libglade2 libgnome esound audiofile libgnomecanvas libmng lcms libwmf poppler openjpeg poppler-data py25-gtk py25-cairo py25-numpy fftw-3 py25-nose py25-setuptools py25-gobject gimp-jp2 gimp-lqr-plugin liblqr gtk-nodoka-engine coreutils gmp gutenprint icns-gimp macclipboard-gimp macfile-gimp ufraw exiv2 gtkimageview xsane sane-backends libusb
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Thanks in advance.

[jean_seb@…]

Hm, after re-running 'sudo port -d install gimp' it seems to get further than that, and stops at a checksum error for libgnomeui. See Ticket #20168.

I would close this ticket but it seems the only thing I can do is "leave as new", so if someone else wants to close it go ahead. Thanks.

[blb@…]

Does

port installed ffmpeg

show it to be installed and active?

[jean_seb@…]

Yes. No idea what went wrong the first time.

[blb@…]

Very odd; do both of these files exist?

/opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html
/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html

[jean_seb@…]

Yes. What are you getting at?

[jean_seb@…]

They also seem to have the same contents:

Skywalker:~ guayj$ ls -al /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html
-rw-r--r--  2 root  admin  36511 Jul  4 02:06 /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html
Skywalker:~ guayj$ ls -al /opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html
-rw-r--r--  2 root  admin  36511 Jul  4 02:06 /opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html
Skywalker:~ guayj$ diff /opt/local/var/macports/software/ffmpeg/0.5_2/opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html /opt/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/ffserver-doc.html
Skywalker:~ guayj$ 

[blb@…]

Yeah, they should be identical (what's in /opt/local/var/macports/software is installed, then is linked into just /opt/local when activated). I was just trying to find if there were any oddities around the initial problem, maybe track down what may have happened initially, but I don't see any clues.