#40382: Fails, building Git on Intel, Tiger Mac Mini -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: dgringo1@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: git-core | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by dgringo1@…): Replying to [comment:14 larryv@…]:
Replying to [comment:13 dgringo1@…]:
Following the installation again, there was no 'configure' program to run... although there had been for the previous efforts.
So are you installing from source or from a package?
- If you are [http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.source installing from source], you need to follow the instructions in the Guide exactly. That is, download the latest tarball, decompress it, and run configure/make/make install from inside the extracted directory. There most certainly is a `configure` script in there: {{{ % curl -s https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.2.0.tar.bz2 | pax -j '*configure' MacPorts-2.2.0/configure % }}} - If you are [http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.binary installing from a package], you can't do the configure/make/make install dance, because there are no configure scripts or makefiles. You should be able to start using it right away.
Please describe //exactly// the steps you are taking to try and install MacPorts.
Wow, yourselves often surprise me being up. I am currently living in Chile, South America, so I erroneously think you've gone home or what-not -- discounting the 'delays' talking through your trac system. :-/ ( I am an Anglo/yank too) I downloaded MacPorts-2.2.0-archive.tar.bz2 via Safari first, allowed the Mac to expand it and ran it from whatever directory it ended up being in (~/src/MacPorts-2.2.0-archive/). (By the way, thanks for working with me!) The time when configure worked, I just ran it and all was well, the second time it reported the confusion/missing application. I am going to curl it, as you show... although that 'pax' command is new to me and checking it out via 'man', I could not find detail on the '-j' switch :(. Same issue :( I ended up with a 2.0.0 version (with a configure program) Let is triple check this... OK, I did the correct file BUT it does NOT have a configure program in it :( I notice that 'archive' ends up at the end of the subdirectory. Is that unexpected and related to why it is not working properly? {{{ mm:~/Downloads dgringo$ cd /Volumes/MiscMac/basic\ settings/MacPorts-2.2.0-archive mm:/Volumes/MiscMac/basic settings/MacPorts-2.2.0-archive dgringo$ ls Makefile doc dports base doc-new www mm:/Volumes/MiscMac/basic settings/MacPorts-2.2.0-archive dgringo$ ll total 8 -rw-r----- 1 dgringo dgringo 445 Mar 1 2009 Makefile drwxr-x--x 24 dgringo dgringo 816 Sep 6 00:26 base/ drwxr-x--x 5 dgringo dgringo 170 Sep 6 00:26 doc/ drwxr-x--x 7 dgringo dgringo 238 Sep 6 00:26 doc-new/ drwxr-x--x 49 dgringo dgringo 1666 Sep 6 00:25 dports/ drwxr-x--x 15 dgringo dgringo 510 Jul 22 20:25 www/ }}} Is there something very fundamentally wrong here, possibly at your end? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40382#comment:16> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X