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

How does dependency checking work?
by mark abney 17 May '07

17 May '07

Since my last request for help garnered nothing, I think I'll try a different tack. In particular, how does port check to see whether dependencies are satisfied? I'm primarily interested in dependencies in the port file of the form depends_lib bin:somename:someport. Under what sort of circumstances is a dependency of this sort supposed to be used? How does port check for this? (e.g. where does it look for somename? Does somename have to be executable?) I'm afraid I don't really know tcl, but looking through port suggests to me that this sort of thing is nor done directly by port? I see looking through the wiki (and from stdout when installing a port) that there are various phases, e.g. com.apple.main, com.apple.build, etc, that are being executed. Are these tcl scripts that are being executed? I'm happy to try to figure this out on my own, but I can't find any relevant documentation. If someone has answers to some of these questions, or could even point me to where I might be able to turn to figure out the answers (I'm willing to read through code), it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark A ____________________________________________________________________________________Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&…

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Problems installing svk-2.0.1
by Lyle Johnson 17 May '07

17 May '07

I was trying to install the "svk" port, but it was taking an extraordinarily long time for the "Configuring svk" step. When I turn on debug output, I can see that it's stuck in an endless loop, repeating this bit over and over: (1) Africa (2) Asia (3) Central America (4) Europe (5) North America (6) Oceania (7) South America Select your continent (or several nearby continents) [] Sorry! since you don't have any existing picks, you must make a geographic selection. Is there a workaround for this?

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X11-Error installing wireshark, using Apple's X11
by Sebastian Hahn 17 May '07

17 May '07

Dear list, I've just searched the list archives for a similar problem and came up with http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007- April/002294.html. The error-message I receive is absolutely the same, the only difference is that I'm not actually trying to install XFree86, as I have Apples X11 already installed. I checked /Library/ Receipts, and both the X11User.pkg and the X11SDK.pkg are installed... Can anybody please give me pointer in the right direction? As a side note, I used to have Fink installed on my system, but then removed it following the provided instructions, so I think this should be OK, or is it possible that this is related? Also, I can start /Applications/ Utilities/X11.app without any problems. Thank you! Sebastian

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MacPorts v1.4.41 released for selfupdate
by James Berry 17 May '07

17 May '07

MacPorts v1.4.41 has been released for self update. To install this release you should be able to: sudo port selfupdate (it will take an hour or so for it to reach the rsync repository). James ChangeLog for this release: Release 1.4.41 (16-May-2007 tagged at r25266 by jberry): - `port info` now supports new --index flag for using old behaviour (eridius r25256). - `port info` now opens the Portfile and displays up-to-date information. This allows information about variants to be displayed (eg. dependencies). Also allow `port info` to default to current directory if no name is provided (eridius r25255). - Add -E flag to reinplace, does the same thing as in sed (eridius r25251). - Add support for [nosync] flag in sources.conf to prevent a source from syncing during a `port sync` or `port selfupdate` (eridius r25236). Example: file:///Users/landonf/misc/MacPorts/dports [nosync] - Updating a file: source via svn update during port sync now uses the uid/gid of the owner of the working copy (eridius r25142). - Make port(1) convert description and long_description from lists to strings before printing to stdout; this enables the proper printing of semi-colons, brackets and other characters by way of Tcl escape sequences. The exceptions to this are the sequences for newline and carriage return (these break the flatfile PortIndex format by introducing line breaks). (boeyms r25110) - Evaluate variants at dportopen instead of dportexec. This ensures that the portfile represents the proper information if queried before targets are executed. It also prevents variants from being executed twice if multiple targets are executed separately on the portfile (ticket #11296, eridius r25033). - Fix copy and move commands (eridius r25024). - Passing multiple arguments to $option-delete now works as expected (ticket #11929, eridius r25006). - fs-traverse no longer follows symlinks specified on the root. This fixes the incorrect behaviour of delete seen in #11862 (eridius r25003). - Remove bundled xar. (jberry r24913). - Tighten checking of port name in depspecs. neither + nor / is allowed. (jberry r24929, r24934, r24940). - Restore ability for portindex lines to contain carriage returns, allowing fields such as descriptions to contain line breaks. Note that any portindex containing such entries will not be readable by a recent version of macports. (jberry r25146) - Add support for descriptions on variants: * The syntax follows the syntax for variant depends, etc. * Descriptions for variants are entirely optional * The change to the portindex format to allow variant descriptions should be backwards compatible. Variant descriptions are stored, keyed by the variant name, in a new portinfo array named "variant_desc". Example: variant myvariant description "This variant does this and that" { configure.args-append --do-this --do-that } (jberry r25147) - Only look for, or create, ~/.macports user directory if the HOME environment variable is defined. (jberry r25177)

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MacPorts v1.4.42 released for selfupdate
by James Berry 17 May '07

17 May '07

MacPorts v1.4.42 has been released for self update, correcting a bug in v1.4.41. To install this release you should be able to: sudo port selfupdate (it will take an hour or so for it to reach the rsync repository). James ChangeLog for this release: Release 1.4.42 (17-May-2007 tagged at r25296 by jberry) - Fix reinplace, broken in 1.4.41 (eridius r25285).

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MacPorts Web App (mpwa) online for initial testing.
by James Berry 17 May '07

17 May '07

The MacPorts Web App (mpwa) is online for some initial testing at http://db.macports.org/ This is the start of a vision for a more comprehensive online repository for ports. Please see some of my sketchy documentation at: http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/jberry/mpwa/doc/ design.txt and http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/jberry/mpwa/ doc/portpkg-design.txt To quote from the design document, my goals for mpwa are: Goals: - Develop a network-reachable port storage mechanism - Allow for ad-hoc submission of new ports/revisions by any user - Since users may submit ports and make them available, port availability is not held up for review by committers. Committers may provide special status to approved ports. - All submissions and versions should always remain network reachable so that old versions may be installed and/or reviewed. - Allow for storage of meta information with such a submission: - Submitter - Comments by various users - Build status - (potentially binaries) - etc. - Allow for promotion of such a submission to a special status (stable, whatever) by the port maintainer or other official personnel. Note that what is visible today is not a complete implementation. The following things are implemented, for the most part: - port submit, to submit a port to the repository. - autosubmit, a script I've been running which auto submits svn checkins after they've been given a chance to stabilize. - mpwa web frontend to browse and view ports and port information. The following is not yet implemented: - A handler for the application/vnd.macports.portpkg mime-type to make it easy to download and use a given portpkg. - Any sort of local support for ports by http: url. - port get, to get a particular port and use it locally - Any remote indexing or query support - User accounts - User created tags - Signing of submissions by submitters - Support for dependencies - Nicer css design and information layout. Your feedback or help on the project is desired. In particular, if somebody want so put in a little work on the css and templates, that would be great. James

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Ghostscript Installation Problem
by Christopher Riker 17 May '07

17 May '07

Working with a MacBook Pro, OS 10.4.9, Xcode 2.4.1. I'm working on installing a few programs with dependencies on Ghostscript and ran into problems upon installation of Ghostscript (v 8.54) So I narrowed my focus down to just Ghostscript. I have cleaned the port and tried repeated consecutive installations (without cleaning) and get this output consistently. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks! - Chris > ---> Building ghostscript > gcc -DHAVE_MKSTEMP -DHAVE_HYPOT -O2 -I/opt/local/include -Wall - > Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes - > Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -fno-builtin -fno-common -DHAVE_STDINT_H > -DGX_COLOR_INDEX_TYPE="unsigned long long" -O2 -O2 -I/opt/local/ > include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing- > prototypes -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -fno-builtin -fno-common - > DHAVE_STDINT_H -DGX_COLOR_INDEX_TYPE="unsigned long long" -O2 -I./ > obj/ -Ijasper/src/libjasper/include -DJAS_CONFIGURE - > DEXCLUDE_BMP_SUPPORT=1 -DEXCLUDE_JPG_SUPPORT=1 - > DEXCLUDE_MIF_SUPPORT=1 -DEXCLUDE_PGX_SUPPORT=1 - > DEXCLUDE_PNM_SUPPORT=1 -DEXCLUDE_RAS_SUPPORT=1 - > DEXCLUDE_PNG_SUPPORT=1 -o ./obj/jas_cm.o -c jasper/src/libjasper/ > base/jas_cm.c > jasper/src/libjasper/base/jas_cm.c: In function > 'jas_cmpxformseq_appendcnvt': > jasper/src/libjasper/base/jas_cm.c:748: warning: implicit > declaration of function 'jas_error' > jasper/src/libjasper/base/jas_cm.c:748: error: > 'JAS_ERR_UNEQUAL_PARMS_IN_JAS_CMPXFORMSEQ_APPENDCNVT' undeclared > (first use in this function) > jasper/src/libjasper/base/jas_cm.c:748: error: (Each undeclared > identifier is reported only once > jasper/src/libjasper/base/jas_cm.c:748: error: for each function it > appears in.) > jasper/src/libjasper/base/jas_cm.c: In function 'icctoclrspc': > jasper/src/libjasper/base/jas_cm.c:1158: error: > 'JAS_ERR_CLR_SPACE_UNKNOWN_IN_ICCTOCLRSPC' undeclared (first use in > this function) > jasper/src/libjasper/base/jas_cm.c: In function 'jas_clrspc_numchans': > jasper/src/libjasper/base/jas_cm.c:1364: error: > 'JAS_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_COLOR_SPACE_IN_JAS_CLRSPC_NUMCHANS' undeclared > (first use in this function) > make: *** [obj/jas_cm.o] Error 1 > Warning: the following items did not execute (for ghostscript): > com.apple.activate com.apple.build com.apple.destroot > com.apple.install >

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error building python24 on mac os x
by Stuart Robertson 17 May '07

17 May '07

I want to install either rdiff or unison or duplicity in order to have incremental off-site backups. Each of these ports fails when python24 fails to build with the following error message at the mac os x command line: Warning: the following items did not execute (for python24): com.apple.activate com.apple.build com.apple.destroot com.apple.install Error: The following dependencies failed to build: python24 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. Above this message are approx. 220 lines which mostly include 'Python/ mactoolboxglue.c:456: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast'. I'm guessing that the problem is something to do with the commands used when trying to build python24 but I've too little understanding of unix, the command line, python and compilers to make sense of the appropriate lines. The first two lines of output concerning python are: ---> Building python24 with target all /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -c -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp- precomp -mno-fused-madd -fno-common -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g - O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/opt/local/include -I. -I./Include - DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Python/mactoolboxglue.o Python/mactoolboxglue.c I've googled to no avail and consulted the list archives for a solution. Any help appreciated, Stuart Imac G5 mac os x 10.4.9 xcode 2.4.1

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Failing to upgrade subversion
by toru murakami 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hi folks, Trying to upgrade subversion, I've got the following message: ---------------------------------------- toto:~$ sudo port -vd upgrade subversion Password: DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/subversion DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: subversion 1.4.3_1 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: subversion 1.4.3_0 is installed DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/textproc/expat DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: expat 2.0.0_1 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: expat 2.0.0_1 is installed DEBUG: No need to upgrade! expat 2.0.0_1 >= expat 2.0.0_1 DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/www/neon DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: neon 0.26.3_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: neon 0.26.3_0 is installed DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/gettext DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: gettext 0.16.1_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: gettext 0.16.1_0 is installed DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/textproc/libiconv DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: libiconv 1.11_4 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: libiconv 1.11_4 is installed DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/gperf DEBUG: gperf is *not* installed by DarwinPorts DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/Shared/dports/devel/gperf DEBUG: Searching for dependency: gperf DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: gperf DEBUG: Found Dependency: path: /usr/bin filename: gperf regex: ^gperf$ DEBUG: gperf installed outside the MacPorts system DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: gperf 3.0.3_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: gperf 3.0.3_0 is installed DEBUG: Not following dependencies DEBUG: No need to upgrade! gperf 3.0.3_0 >= gperf 3.0.3_0 DEBUG: No need to upgrade! libiconv 1.11_4 >= libiconv 1.11_4 DEBUG: No need to upgrade! gettext 0.16.1_0 >= gettext 0.16.1_0 DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/openssl DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: openssl 0.9.8e_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: openssl 0.9.8e_0 is installed DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/archivers/zlib DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: zlib 1.2.3_1 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: zlib 1.2.3_1 is installed DEBUG: No need to upgrade! zlib 1.2.3_1 >= zlib 1.2.3_1 DEBUG: No need to upgrade! openssl 0.9.8e_0 >= openssl 0.9.8e_0 DEBUG: No need to upgrade! neon 0.26.3_0 >= neon 0.26.3_0 DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/apr DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: apr 1.2.8_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: apr 1.2.8_0 is installed DEBUG: No need to upgrade! apr 1.2.8_0 >= apr 1.2.8_0 DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/apr-util DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: apr-util 1.2.8_2 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: apr-util 1.2.8_2 is installed DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/apr DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: apr 1.2.8_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: apr 1.2.8_0 is installed DEBUG: No need to upgrade! apr 1.2.8_0 >= apr 1.2.8_0 DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/databases/db44 DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: db44 4.4.20_1 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: db44 4.4.20_1 is installed DEBUG: No need to upgrade! db44 4.4.20_1 >= db44 4.4.20_1 DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/databases/sqlite3 DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: sqlite3 3.3.17_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: sqlite3 3.3.17_0 is installed DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/readline DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: readline 5.2.001_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: readline 5.2.001_0 is installed DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/ncurses DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: ncurses 5.6_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: ncurses 5.6_0 is installed DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/ncursesw DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0 DEBUG: ncursesw 5.6_0 exists in the ports tree DEBUG: ncursesw 5.6_0 is installed DEBUG: No need to upgrade! ncursesw 5.6_0 >= ncursesw 5.6_0 DEBUG: No need to upgrade! ncurses 5.6_0 >= ncurses 5.6_0 DEBUG: No need to upgrade! readline 5.2.001_0 >= readline 5.2.001_0 DEBUG: No need to upgrade! sqlite3 3.3.17_0 >= sqlite3 3.3.17_0 DEBUG: No need to upgrade! apr-util 1.2.8_2 >= apr-util 1.2.8_2 DEBUG: variants to install DEBUG: available variants are : universal mod_dav_svn no_neon no_bdb mac_os_x_server_mod_dav_svn tools bash_completion darwin_7 DEBUG: new portvariants: DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/Shared/dports/devel/subversion DEBUG: Requested variant powerpc is not provided by port subversion. DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port subversion. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port subversion. DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/textproc/expat DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/Shared/dports/textproc/expat DEBUG: Searching for dependency: expat DEBUG: Found Dependency: receipt exists for expat DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/www/neon DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/Shared/dports/www/neon DEBUG: Searching for dependency: neon DEBUG: Found Dependency: receipt exists for neon DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/apr DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/Shared/dports/devel/apr DEBUG: Searching for dependency: apr DEBUG: Found Dependency: receipt exists for apr DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/apr-util DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/Shared/dports/devel/apr-util DEBUG: Searching for dependency: apr-util DEBUG: Found Dependency: receipt exists for apr-util DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/databases/db44 DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/Shared/dports/databases/db44 DEBUG: Searching for dependency: db44 DEBUG: Found Dependency: receipt exists for db44 DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/Shared/dports/devel/gettext DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/Shared/dports/devel/gettext DEBUG: invalid command name "configure.cppflags" while executing "configure.cppflags -no-cpp-precomp" (file "Portfile" line 37) invoked from within "source Portfile" invoked from within "$workername eval source Portfile" (procedure "dportopen" line 47) invoked from within "dportopen $porturl $options $variations" (procedure "dportdepends" line 61) invoked from within "dportdepends $dport $target" (procedure "dportexec" line 24) invoked from within "dportexec $workername $upgrade_action" Error: Unable to upgrade port: invalid command name "configure.cppflags" ---------------------------------------- Any suggestions? -- toru

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How to add a variant to an installed port?
by Peter Farsinsen 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi, When I installed php5, apache etc. I forgot to install Tidy. Is it' possible to install the variant to the php port without having to do a new install (of php, apache etc. that is)? The wiki nor Google seemed to have the answer, so I hope someone can help me out. -- Peter Farsinsen

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