March 2007 - macports-users - lists.macosforge.org

problem installing shapelib
by Richard Nelson 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

I'm trying to install xastir which has shapelib as a dependency. The installation stops with this: ---> Configuring shapelib Error: Target com.apple.configure returned: invalid command name "no" Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. I tried cleaning the port. I tried port sync. I tried port upgrade outdated. I've run out of ideas. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Discover new ports
by Lorin Rivers 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Is there an easy way to discover what new ports have been added to MacPorts? By new, I mean "not previously part of MacPorts" as opposed to "an existing port that's been updated".

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MacPorts roadmap & new milestones
by Juan Manuel Palacios 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Evening everyone! Thanks to the kind help provided by Elias Pipping, our new project roadmap is up at: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/roadmap For those of you who actively use it, the major changes you'll notice are that the "Available Ports" milestone has been deleted (tickets belonging to it reassigned according to the new guidelines referenced below) and four new ones have been added: "Port Bugs", "Port Enhancements", "Port Updates" and "Needs developer review". The guidelines to use them all will be shortly up at: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/TracTicketing [1] Needless to say, these wont be Godly mandates, but I would still like to request that all those of you with Wiki edit privileges wishing to give your feedback & input on them run by me any edits you might want to make to that document (Elias and I just spent several hours cleaning up the old roadmap, so we can tell you that dealing with so many tickets gets a bit tiring a bit too quickly, and therefore we would like to avoid ambiguous instructions as much as possible!). Regards to all and thanks again to Elias! -jmpp [1] Out of date with respect to the new layout as of this posting, g'me some time to work on the document and bring it up to speed, I'm beat right now! I am nevertheless still sending this message *now* (with an old document in place) because I fear some might get confused with the new and missing milestones and no information what-so-ever on the changes.

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GTK2 & Cairo "Quartz" Variant
by Nathan Brazil 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi. I noticed the following lines in GTK2's Portfile: pre-configure { if {[variant_isset quartz]} { if { ![file exists ${prefix}/include/cairo/cairo-quartz.h] } { ui_msg "\nYou must first build cairo with the quartz variant enabled. Please\nuninstall (or deactivate) the cairo port and reinstall by running:\n\n\"port install cairo +quartz\"\n" exit 1 } } ... variant quartz { configure.args-append --enable-gdktarget=quartz } Does this mean if I enable the quartz variant, I can compile GTK applications w/o X11?

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php5 +apache2 +mysql5 does not behave as expected
by Elise van Looij 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

At the end of a MAMP installation (sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5) I got the following message: ---> Installing php5 5.2.1_1+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5 If this is your first install, you might want cd /opt/local/apache2/modules /opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs -a -e -n "php5" libphp5.so * copy /opt/local/etc/php.ini-dist to /opt/local/etc/php.ini ---> Activating php5 5.2.1_1+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5 ---> Cleaning php5 Question: what is it exactly that I might want to do? Should I copy those lines from cd ... ini into my terminal? As one line, three lines? Does this have anything to do with the fact that the installation did not result in a proper httpd.conf, as I expected, but in a file called httpd.conf.sample which, among other things, has no LoadModule for php5? I did a port install for apache2 and mysql5 (and subversion) before I did the port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 Elise van Looij

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"sudo port -d selfupdate" fails to update MacPorts installation
by Paulo Moura 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi! For more than a week, "sudo port -d selfupdate" fails to update my MacPorts installation. All worked fine a week ago. The command output is: pmmbp:~ pmoura$ sudo port -d selfupdate DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed. Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done sent 77 bytes received 234721 bytes 5944.25 bytes/sec total size is 14267567 speedup is 60.77 DEBUG: MacPorts base dir: /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/ rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate1/base DEBUG: Setting user: root DarwinPorts base version 1.320 installed DEBUG: Updating using rsync receiving file list ... done sent 77 bytes received 4524 bytes 296.84 bytes/sec total size is 2504037 speedup is 544.24 Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.320 The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated DEBUG: Setting ownership to root selfupdate done! I know for a fact that portfiles are update in the lat few days. I've no idea why updating is failing your help is appreciated. I'm running the latest version of MacOS X (10.4.9) on a MacBook Pro. All the best, Paulo ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paulo Jorge Lopes de Moura Dep. of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal Office 4.3 Ext. 3257 Phone: +351 275319891 Fax: +351 275319899 Email: <mailto:pmoura@di.ubi.pt> Home page: <http://www.di.ubi.pt/~pmoura> Research: <http://logtalk.org/> -----------------------------------------------------------------

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ion3
by Joerg van den Hoff 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

hello, first, a big thank you for making `ion3' available via macports, which is a really excellent (and still rather unusual) window manager (not finding this package at all in `fink' brought me to `macports' in the first place...). unfortenuately, the `ion3' version available via macports is rather old. I therefore recently tried (unsuccessfully) to compile a newer release of ion3 myself. I gave up after some time due to unclear conflicts which I did not manage to resolve. my question: is their a chance that `ion3' will be updated on macports to a more recent version? this would be great. best regards, joerg

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rsync.[macports,darwinports].org broken?
by Rolf Würdemann 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hi .. even if I know from svn that some packages from darwin/macports where commited in the last days, "port -v sync" shows nothing. After changing source to rsync.macports.org several Descriptions where downloaded - excluding some files which where committed this weekend ... Is there an problem? Reg's Rolf -- Security is an illusion - Datasecurity twice Rolf Würdemann - private: rowue(a)digitalis.org - office: rowue(a)crew-gmbh.de GnuPG fingerprint: 7383 348F 67D1 CD27 C90F DDD0 86A3 31B6 67F0 D02F

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test.run yes -- what's it do?
by Ryan Schmidt 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

I'm trying to figure out if "test.run yes" actually does anything. For example, the port judy includes "test.run yes", but installing with debugging and verbose output on, I can find no evidence that any test is being run. My interest stems from the fftw-3 portfile, which includes this: post-build { cd ${worksrcpath} system "make check" } I assumed this was just because the port author at the time did not know about: test.run yes test.target check but the post-build definitely does run "make check", whereas if I replace the post-build section with the above test.run and test.target directives, I don't think "make check" gets run. I'm running MacPorts compiled from the 1.5 trunk, on an Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. Anyone know what's up?

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Porting Crossfire
by Jarimatti Valkonen 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hi! I've started to make a port for Crossfire (http://crossfire.real- time.com/) Currently I've got the game client working on my machine, but I don't know how to add dependencies. Which fine manual should I read? Attached are the two portfiles (one for the client and one for the image files). As this is my first serious try at making a port any comments are greatly appreciated. Should the game binary be installed in /opt/local/games instead of / opt/local/bin? I used the Nethack port as my reference and installed to /opt/local/bin. -Jarimatti -- Jarimatti Valkonen jarimatti(a)dnainternet.net

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