does anybody know how to get the 'texlive-base' port to build?

[Robert Bonomi]

> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Fri Oct 23 16:55:31 2015
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:11:33 -0500
> From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa at gmx.us>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: does anybody know how to get the 'texlive-base' port to build?
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 04:08:48PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > I've to the 20150521 source tarball, butwhen I try to build, i get an
> > 'unexpected configuration failure'  regarding 'kpathsea'. 
> > 
> > The README down several levels in the work directory says it's part of
> > the distribution, but an exhaustive search of the work tree fails to find
> > it.
> > \
> > 
> Not sure if this is connected, but there was a /usr/ports/UPDATING note
> from the beginning of September about upgrading texlive-base.  Might be
> worth a read.

It's not.  I found out what is going on.  some .pc files are missing from
the pkgconfig directory.  I dunno why