latex2html @2008, Revision 2 (print) Install failure

[vances (Vance Shipley)]

Installation of the port failed:

$ sudo port install latex2html
--->  Computing dependencies for bzip2
--->  Fetching bzip2
--->  Attempting to fetch bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz from http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for bzip2
--->  Extracting bzip2
--->  Applying patches to bzip2
--->  Configuring bzip2
--->  Building bzip2
--->  Staging bzip2 into destroot
--->  Computing dependencies for bzip2
--->  Installing bzip2 @1.0.6_0
--->  Deactivating bzip2 @1.0.5_3+darwin
--->  Activating bzip2 @1.0.6_0
--->  Cleaning bzip2
--->  Computing dependencies for latex2html
--->  Staging latex2html into destroot
Error: reinplace: couldn't read file "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print_latex2html/work/destroot/opt/local/bin/pstoimg": no such file or directory
Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: reinplace sed(1) failed
Log for latex2html is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_print_latex2html/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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[vances (Vance Shipley)]

Log file

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please remember to use WikiFormatting so your posts are legible.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

log showing the actual problem

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I get this too. Your log doesn't show the problem though, since it skips the configure and build phases. (You hadn't cleaned before installing.) I attached a log showing the real problem, which I think is:

:info:configure checking for gs... /opt/local/bin/gs
:info:configure checking for ghostscript version... no
:info:configure Error: could not determine gs version
:info:configure Warning: Will not be able to generate images due to above failure.

:info:build /opt/local/bin/perl /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_print_latex2html/work/latex2html-2008/config/build.pl -x  pstoimg
:info:build build.pl (Revision 1.6)
:info:build /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_print_latex2html/work/latex2html-2008/config/build.pl: Warning: Skipping build of pstoimg because of missing external programs.
:info:build touch pstoimg

:info:destroot Warning: pstoimg not installed, because build failed.

:debug:destroot Executing proc-post-org.macports.destroot-destroot-0
:debug:destroot couldn't read file "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_print_latex2html/work/destroot/opt/local/bin/pstoimg": no such file or directory

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I believe the source of the problem is that the ghostscript port currently is at version 9.00rc2, a release candidate, and so "gs -h" prints this as its first line:

GPL Ghostscript RELEASE CANDIDATE 9.00 (2010-09-01)

Looking in latex2html's config/config.pl script, it is expecting the string to match this regular expression:

/Ghostscript\s*(?:Version|(?:PRE-|BETA |TESTER )RELEASE|)\s*(\d+[.]?\d*)/i

It's not expecting the words "release candidate" to appear there.

Indeed, I was not expecting our ghostscript port to be at a release candidate version; we use only stable versions unless there's a good reason not to. I have requested ghostscript be updated to 9.00 final in #26588 which should resolve this. I will also look into fixing latex2html to be able to detect release candidate versions of ghostscript.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Fixed latex2html to handle release candidate versions of ghostscript in r71773.