Building on Mac OS. error: leptonica 1.74 or higher is required

[James Sutton]

Followed all the MacPorts instructions though I had to force it to activate many things apparently because they were installed already using the suggested "port -f activate xxx".

When running configure it gave the error:

 leptonica 1.74 or higher is required

However mac ports reports:

The following ports are currently installed:

  leptonica @1.74.1_1 (active)

Frustrating! I only want to build the tesseract library, and I do not understand any of this stuff.

 MacPorts has littered my disk with thousands of renamed files *.mp_1493715497 which I don't want. Is there an easy way to get rid of them?

Thanks

[James Sutton]

restarted with git clone..

and now it builds