Upgrading "guile18" fails

[dave@…]

Uograding MacPorts failed when building "guile18":

--->  Staging guile18 into destroot
Error: org.macports.destroot for port guile18 returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port guile18 for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_guile18/guile18/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Error rebuilding guile18
    while executing
"error "Error rebuilding $portname""
    (procedure "revupgrade_scanandrebuild" line 395)
    invoked from within
"revupgrade_scanandrebuild broken_port_counts $opts"
    (procedure "macports::revupgrade" line 5)
    invoked from within
"macports::revupgrade $opts"
    (procedure "action_revupgrade" line 2)
    invoked from within
"action_revupgrade $action $portlist $opts"
    (procedure "action_upgrade" line 25)
    invoked from within
"$action_proc $action $portlist [array get global_options]"
    (procedure "process_cmd" line 103)
    invoked from within
"process_cmd $remaining_args"
    invoked from within
"if { [llength $remaining_args] > 0 } {

    # If there are remaining arguments, process those as a command
    set exit_status [process_cmd $remaining..."
    (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 5268)
ozzie:~ dave$ 

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The relevant portion of the log appears to be:

:info:destroot ./gh.texi:1000: must be after `@deftypefun' to use `@deftypefunx'
:info:destroot ./fdl.texi:411: raising the section level of @appendixsubsec which is too low
:info:destroot ./api-utility.texi:566: warning: node `C Hooks' is next for `Hook Reference' in menu but not in sectioning
:info:destroot ./api-utility.texi:674: warning: node `Hook Reference' is prev for `C Hooks' in menu but not in sectioning
:info:destroot ./api-options.texi:510: warning: node next `Printing options' in menu `Debugger options' and in sectioning `Evaluator options' differ
:info:destroot ./api-options.texi:533: warning: node prev `Evaluator options' in menu `Debugger options' and in sectioning `Printing options' differ
:info:destroot ./api-options.texi:544: warning: node next `Evaluator trap options' in menu `Examples of option use' and in sectioning `Debugger options' differ
:info:destroot ./api-options.texi:625: warning: node next `Debugger options' in menu `Evaluator options' and in sectioning `Examples of option use' differ
:info:destroot ./api-options.texi:625: warning: node prev `Debugger options' in menu `Printing options' and in sectioning `Evaluator trap options' differ
:info:destroot ./api-options.texi:681: warning: node prev `Examples of option use' in menu `Evaluator trap options' and in sectioning `Debugger options' differ
:info:destroot make[2]: *** [guile.info] Error 1

This makes it sound like a texinfo problem. texinfo was updated to version 6 last month in r138717; it's possible guile18's use of texinfo is not compatible with texinfo 6 and needs to be patched in some way.

Actually, according to this gentoo bug, it's an incompatibility with texinfo 5 already: ​https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464044

Also a debian bug report: ​https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738295

These have patches attached that we might use.

[MasakiOita]

Cc Me!

[shapovalow@…]

Cc Me!

[shapovalow@…]

Those patches worked for me: ​https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?filename=texinfo5.patch;bug=738295;msg=5;att=1 ​https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=370994&action=diff

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Cc Me!

[codefisher (Michael Buckley)]

I am still getting this error, 4 years later, my error log has exactly the same as @ryandesign posted, even the line numbers are are the same. Is there any possibility of a fix? I am trying to install lilypond.

[barracuda156]

Still broken:

Making install in ref
make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCSnowLeopardPorts_lang_guile18/guile18/work/guile-1.8.8/doc/ref'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
	am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
	rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
	if (/bin/sh /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCSnowLeopardPorts_lang_guile18/guile18/work/guile-1.8.8/build-aux/missing --run makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
	  for f in guile.info guile.info-[0-9] guile.info-[0-9][0-9] guile.i[0-9] guile.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
	    if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
	  done; \
	else :; fi && \
	cd "$am__cwd"; \
	if /bin/sh /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCSnowLeopardPorts_lang_guile18/guile18/work/guile-1.8.8/build-aux/missing --run makeinfo   -I . \
	 -o guile.info guile.texi; \
	then \
	  rc=0; \
	  CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .; \
	else \
	  rc=$?; \
	  CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
	  $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./guile.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
	fi; \
	rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
api-compound.texi:908: encoding error at byte 0xa0
gh.texi:1000: must be after `@deftypefun' to use `@deftypefunx'
fdl.texi:411: raising the section level of @appendixsubsec which is too low
make[2]: *** [guile.info] Error 1