#48968: Unable to fetch ghostscript ------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: macleod@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.3.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | ------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by macleod@…): Replying to [comment:3 ryandesign@…]:
It could be that all the ports that succeeded were fetched as binaries, while for ghostscript a binary was not available so it tried to build from source, and it's the source download that's having a problem. That would also point to the system curl library working ok, since binary downloads also use curl.
The "callback" mentioned in the error message might be the display of the progress bar. Is there anything unusual about your terminal that might interfere with terminal activities more advanced than just printing text? Are you for example connected via ssh or are you using `screen`? Both of those work for me, but if you're doing anything like that, try running the command directly without those instead. Or if you're using a shell other than bash, try using bash.
If all else fails or if you're in a crunch to resolve this quickly, you can of course [ProblemHotlist#fetch-failures download the distfiles manually] and put them where they belong, but long term that's going to get tiresome if you have to do that for every port that downloads source.
Thanks, I just tried something I have never had to do before. I usually use Eterm as my terminal window but I ran the same port command from the standard Apple Terminal window and it worked! curl was suddenly able to download ghostscript and things are chugging along again. Wow weird is that!? Thanks for the suggestion!! Rob -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48968#comment:5> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X