octave @7.1.0: TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its log file

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In trying to test the fix for #65272, I got this failure in the destroot phase:

/opt/local/bin/texi2dvi: TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its log file
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/octave.dvi] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_macports-ports-ryandesign-fork_math_octave/octave/work/octave-7.1.0'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_macports-ports-ryandesign-fork_math_octave/octave/work/octave-7.1.0'
make: *** [install] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_macports-ports-ryandesign-fork_math_octave/octave/work/octave-7.1.0'
Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_macports-ports-ryandesign-fork_math_octave/octave/work/octave-7.1.0" && /usr/bin/make -w install DESTDIR=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_macports-ports-ryandesign-fork_math_octave/octave/work/destroot
Exit code: 2
Error: Failed to destroot octave: command execution failed

It doesn't seem related to #65272 so I'm filing it separately here.

[detlevd (Detlev Droege)]

This seems to be a pure texi2dvi internal problem and might be connected to your latex / pdflatex installation. (The messages come from the texi2dvi internal sanity checks, it is a big shell script.) The very same problem came up some years ago (also with octave) in #52987. By then, it apparently was a problem in the TeX installation. I didn't have that problem with my suggested solution to #65272, possibly because I have a non-macports TeX installation (MacTeX).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

"my latex / pdflatex installation" is whatever MacPorts installed automatically as dependencies, or whatever I already had installed with MacPorts.