lilypond 2.20.0: +docs variant will not build

[JunTamura1959]

Since I had built lilypond 2.18.2 successfully before, I ran

% sudo port selfupdate
% sudo port upgrade outdated
<snipped>
--->  Computing dependencies for lilypond
--->  Fetching archive for lilypond
--->  Attempting to fetch lilypond-2.20.0_0+docs.darwin_19.x86_64.tbz2 from http://kmq.jp.packages.macports.org/lilypond
--->  Attempting to fetch lilypond-2.20.0_0+docs.darwin_19.x86_64.tbz2 from https://pek.cn.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/lilypond
--->  Attempting to fetch lilypond-2.20.0_0+docs.darwin_19.x86_64.tbz2 from http://jog.id.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/lilypond
--->  Fetching distfiles for lilypond
--->  Verifying checksums for lilypond
--->  Extracting lilypond
--->  Configuring lilypond
Error: Failed to configure lilypond, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_lilypond/lilypond/work/lilypond-2.20.0/config.log
Error: Failed to configure lilypond: configure failure: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_lilypond/lilypond/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.

The log file /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_lilypond/lilypond/main.log is attached. The essential part of the log seems to be:

:info:configure ERROR: Please install required programs:  texi2html <= 1.82 (installed: 5.32)

but I'm not so sure.

MacOS: Catalina 10.15.3

Xcode: Version 11.3.1 (11C504)

[kencu (Ken)]

Try building it without the +docs variant for now. That should get you going at least, until that gets fixed.

[kencu (Ken)]

If this port truly needs that old version of texi2html then it might need to download it and use it for the build. If the current version of texi2html will work, then the version test would appear to need to be updated.

Our texit2html was updated many years ago to 5.0, but the old version still exists in the commit history as a starting point.

PortSystem 1.0

name		texi2html
version		1.82
platforms	darwin
if {[info exists supported_archs]} {
    supported_archs noarch
}
categories	textproc
maintainers	nomaintainer
description	A Perl script which converts Texinfo source files to HTML output.
long_description \
	A Perl script which converts Texinfo source files to HTML output.
homepage	http://www.nongnu.org/${name}
master_sites	http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/${name}

checksums       md5     7ea537a8c81ffbf5421b39c0333e91df \
                sha1    e7bbe1197147566250abd5c456b94c8e37e0a81f \
                rmd160  1949d1d857cb71e1b5070e36223a26896910d523

patchfiles	patch-test-run_test.sh.diff

depends_lib	path:bin/perl:perl5

configure.perl	${prefix}/bin/perl

use_parallel_build  yes

test.run	yes
test.target	check

universal_variant   no

livecheck.type	regex
livecheck.url	${master_sites}
livecheck.regex	${name}-(\\d+(?:\\.\\d+)*)

[kencu (Ken)]

In the lilypond build scripts, it says this:

@c XXX Currently we are forced to use ancient version 1.82 of texi2html
@c     (from 2005); we thus have to provide a macro for `@sortas',
@c     which was introduced in texinfo version 6.1 (in 2016).

so the lilypond authour certainly feels that the texi2html version needs to be old.

[JunTamura1959]

Replying to kencu:

Try building it without the +docs variant for now. That should get you going at least, until that gets fixed.

Build failed even without +docs.

[kencu (Ken)]

works for me, so let's see a new log to see what's not working now...

[JunTamura1959]

Thank you. Problem solved.

I was trying to install the new version (2.20.0) while preserving the previous version (2.18.2) with

%sudo port upgrade outdated

or

%sudo port install lilypond

without success.

I realized that the previous installation was with +docs. The default of the port file for the previous version could have been with +docs. I did not recall that I specified +docs option.

Then I tried

% sudo port uninstall lilypond
% sudo cut_leaves
<cut all leaves>
% sudo port install lilypond

and lilypond 2.20.0 was successfully built without docs.

[kencu (Ken)]

good detective work!

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Currently can't get past configure (lots of missing dependencies); likely side effect of the upgrades to 2.20.

See #60390 for now.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

I've re-added the dependencies that got removed. +docs (well, the -devel version at least) now builds for me.