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

[Dutch Ingraham]

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.