maxima @5.39.0_2: build failure

[dyne2meter]

Fails during "making all in doc" with "sh extract_categories.sh maxima"

see lines 17975 - 17987 of attached log; above is invoked at line 17979 of my log

[dyne2meter]

main log file

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

:info:build ** Bad line in /usr/local/share/texinfo//htmlxref.cnf: htmlxrefversion=2013-08-03.16; # UTC 

Remove what you have installed in /usr/local. See wiki:FAQ#usrlocal.

[dyne2meter]

I've had TeX installed in /usr/local for ages, the 2015 TeXlive, and it's only just started this interference, which I guess comes in with the update of maxima. Thanks for the heads up. I've been explicitly instructed by some build scripts for other software to take /opt/local out of my path, and this tactic might consequently have occurred to me; thanks for the quick pointer.

[dyne2meter]

No, that was not the problem. I took /usr/local entirely out of my path and rebooted, and the maxima build fails at exactly the same point.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Please attach the new main.log file.

[dyne2meter]

The new main.log file is now attached.

[dyne2meter]

Good news, sorta: I just successfully upgraded maxima as current (5.39.0.2). This is following installation of the octave upgrade which installs some stuff from texlive.bin, plus fonts and other stuff. In my installation of macports, a lot of this 'other stuff' is designated 'leaves' after the installation is done, and I usually uninstall my leaves. I don't have any idea if it's related to the build fail that prompted this ticket..

That said, I've now got problems with broken ports of ImageMagick and ghostscript that I have to run port rev-upgrade on. That's just informational, and I will post a new ticket based on the output I get if somebody else hasn't, already.

ETA: April 26 -- Confirm this happened on my system running El Capitan as well, but I tried to update maxima before updating octave. Failed, and then succeeded after installing octave update. Don't know why anyone else is not having this problem/fix, but something installed in the build dependencies for octave (some texlive stuff?) is fixing my maxima update problem.

[dyne2meter]

main log file, 5.39.0.3

[dyne2meter]

No joy in Mudville, again.

[dyne2meter]

Once again, the new octave update comes to the rescue, and with its build dependencies installed, the maxima build succeeds. This is not too tedious a process on the dual quad-core MacPro @3.0 GHz, but it takes about an hour to install octave on the dual core iMac running @ 2.4 GHz. It would be nice to know which (few?) of these build dependencies are essential in my case. It could be that my installations of MacPorts have some idiosyncracies as a result of manually updating the rest of my installed ports when one port is not building. I just don't know the ins and outs, and I don't know how large is the maxima user base that is not having this problem. It's an interesting situation, at least for me.

[dyne2meter]

main log

[dyne2meter]

Another maxima update build failure. Log enclosed. Octave updates are on hold because of a separately-ticketed runtime dependency with transfig.

[friendbthomas]

Build failure in generating manual

[friendbthomas]

A build failure still exits, and it happens when building the texinfo manual. The log file (main.4.log.gz) is attached. This happens after even self update and cleaning.

[dyne2meter]

The required TeX-related package(s) are installed as build dependencies during the building of octave, but I don't know exactly which ones are required for maxima.

[friendbthomas]

Workaround : The build and install does succeed if the full variant of texlive is installed. This may be a useful workaround for others facing this problem.

[dyne2meter]

That workaround is kind of a non-starter for anyone who's happy with some other installation of TeX, such as the one from www.tug.org/mactex. I did try installing texlive from macports but gave up when the installation that isn't even the +full variant took longer than octave to download and install. I'm pretty sure a judicious selection of texlive (and including its math) fonts, dvips, latex, and docbook ports would get the job done, but it's easier to get rid of the leaves via re-installing octave if nobody's going to fix this port to get the right build dependencies. Nobody even needs to wait out the building of octave after all the dependencies are on board unless they actually want it.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #54767.

[catap (Kirill A. Korinsky)]

In 1aeed33113686d8dff80919689b098b516c0d49b/macports-ports (master):

maxima: update to 5.47.0maxima-devel: update to 5.47-dev-20230730

Also add myself as maintainer and closes number of issues.

Closes: #48427
Closes: #53926
Closes: #55362
Closes: #63813
Closes: #66034
Closes: #67147
Closes: #67778
Closes: #67801