On Mar 27, 2007, at 16:29, George Georgalis wrote:
This seems a bug...
mkdir MacPorts sudo mv MacPorts /usr/local cd MacPorts-1.4.0 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/MacPorts \ --with-install-user=$USER \ --with-install-group=$USER make && make install ... /usr/bin/install -c -o geo -g geo -m 444 portstyle.7 /usr/local/ MacPorts/share/man/man7 /usr/bin/install -c -o geo -g geo -m 444 porthier.7 /usr/local/ MacPorts/share/man/man7 /usr/bin/install -c -o geo -g geo -m 444 portgroup.7 /usr/local/ MacPorts/share/man/man7 ===> making install in src ===> making install in src/darwinports1.0 /usr/bin/install -c -d -o geo -g geo -m 0775 /Library/Tcl/ darwinports1.0 install: mkdir /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0: Permission denied make[2]: *** [install] Error 71 make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make: *** [install] Error 1
what happend to the prefix setting? Am I missing a configure option?
No... MacPorts just needs to write some things in /Library/Tcl/ darwinports1.0, that's all. But I don't know why it thinks it needs to do that.