gl2ps +docs: ! LaTeX Error: File `pdftexcmds.sty' not found.

[alex1platon]

Although the library libgl2ps.1.4.2.dylib seems to compile successfully the build/install bombs out because a test(?) PDF creation fails. Logs attached. Excerpt from main.log:

:info:build (/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/iftex/iftex.sty)
:info:build ! LaTeX Error: File `pdftexcmds.sty' not found.
:info:build Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
:info:build or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
:info:build Enter file name:
:info:build ! Emergency stop.
:info:build <read *>
:info:build
:info:build l.108 \RequirePackage{pdftexcmds}[2009/04/10]
:info:build                                              ^^M
:info:build !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
:info:build Transcript written on gl2ps.log.
:info:build make[2]: *** [gl2ps.pdf] Error 1

[murrayE]

Same error here with MacPorts 2.6.99 under Big Sur 11.1 with Xcode CLT 12.4.

[murrayE]

Unfortunately, the build error for gl2ps is preventing installation of octave, one of the main apps I'm trying to install via MacPorts.

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

I only see this problem when building gl2ps with the +docs variant, so you could avoid it by not enabling (or by explicitly disabling) that variant for this port.

According to ​this, pdftexcmds was moved out of the monolithic oberdiek bundle (which apparently is part of what we install in our texlive-latex port) into its own pdftexcmds package (which apparently is part of what we install in our texlive-latex-recommended port). It also seems to need files provided by a few other tex ports, but then it builds fine for me. Presumably all of those files used to be part of the texlive-latex port.

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

In fcb85725e680d7b10cc318f635ba4ba8999965ac/macports-ports (master):

gl2ps: Add dependencies needed to build with docs

Closes: #61671