nettle @3.9.1: You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in your PATH

[nigel-daniels (Nigel Daniels)]

Running

sudo port install gimp

Results in the following error:

--->  Building nettle
Error: Failed to build nettle: command execution failed  
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_nettle/nettle/main.log for details.

The log is attached.

[nigel-daniels (Nigel Daniels)]

Log file

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The log says the problem is:

You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in
your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one.  If you want to use
this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or change
your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do).  See the --help
output for more details.
For information about obtaining TeX, please see http://tug.org/texlive,
or do a web search for TeX and your operating system or distro.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

We had a successful build of this port on Sonoma last month but I see that the builds on Ventura and Sonoma have one file fewer than the builds on Monterey and earlier: they're missing /opt/local/share/info/nettle.info which I guess would have been generated by makeinfo. We know from previous reports like #67737 that Ventura and later no longer include makeinfo. Presumably the buildbot builds saw that makeinfo was absent and skipped building the nettle.info file. Your log shows that it found MacPorts makeinfo but apparently you're missing the other TeX ports that it also needs. I'll have to investigate what those ports are and add them as build dependencies of nettle.

[nigel-daniels (Nigel Daniels)]

FYI I installed BasicTeX-2023 so I can do which tex and it shows up, but I still get the same error attempting to install gimp.

[nigel-daniels (Nigel Daniels)]

Hi, I updated my OS to Sonoma 14.1.2 and updated MacPorts. I still have the same error, I rechecked my TeX install:

% which texi2pdf
/opt/local/bin/texi2pdf
% which tex
/Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin/tex
% echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin:/opt/local/libexec/gnubin

It looks like everything is in place.