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

autoconf macport vs panther's
by mark brethen 16 May '07

16 May '07

I installed autoconf 2.61; is there a way to bypass the older version panther installed in /usr/bin/ ? Do I even need it (i.e. could I just change the name)? Mark mailto:mbrethen@aim.com

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heimdal and coreutils collision: /opt/local/bin/su
by paul beard 16 May '07

16 May '07

> Error: Target com.apple.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ > bin/su is being used by the active coreutils port. Please > deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the > activation. How do we propose to resolve the disputed file issue? heimdal and coreutils both want to install /opt/local/bin/su. Are they the same thing? -- Paul Beard words: http://paulbeard.org/wordpress pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdb206/ Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?

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Status of gnome-vfs/Ticket #11680?
by Ansgar Esztermann 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hello everyone, does anyone know what the current status of gnome-vfs is? It does not build unter MacOS 10.3.9 because a patch cannot be applied. Apparently, someone produced a fixed patch, but it does not seem to be part of ports 1.440. Thanks, A.

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Problem with universal variant of jpeg ...
by William Gallafent 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi, I previously had the standard variant of jpeg installed, but wanted to upgrade to universal, for testing some software targetting both architectures. So, I typed 'sudo port install jpeg +universal', which apparently worked, but strangely only the static library is universal, the dylib is i386 only: humber:~ williamg$ file /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.62.0.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.62.0.0.dylib: Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386 humber:~ williamg$ file /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.a /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.a: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.a (for architecture i386): current ar archive random library /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.a (for architecture ppc): current ar archive I did a little bit of fiddling with the Portfile, which didn't help, and I'd now like to completely clean jpeg (including the source directory) and start again from scratch without jpeg installed, to see if it works correctly from a clean starting point (rather than from a different variant being installed to start with). 'sudo port uninstall jpeg' doesn't work because there are many dependent packages. Is there a way to force the uninstall so that I can install jpeg+universal from a clean slate? Is the universal variant of libjpeg known to be broken in this way, or have I screwed something up in my system? Thanks, -- Bill Gallafent.

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per user configuration in macports
by Emmanuel Hainry 15 May '07

15 May '07

Dear list, Since a few weeks (around release 1.4.0 I think), there are discussions about a ~/.macports directory (sometimes because no $HOME is defined, sometimes because this directory was created with permissions disabling the user to access it). I do not really understand what it stands for. Pardon me for not reading all release notes... Is it possible to have multiple users using port with different options on the same machine, possibly installing in distinct locations? Is it possible to have macports behave correctly with user rights hence the fact that configuration may belong to the user instead of root or global config files? (I am quite certain the answer to this one is no since creating users and groups (pgsql for example) needs administrator rights). And the real question : Is there any reason to have options in a user directory rather than global options located in /etc or better ${prefix}/etc as it has always been? Best, Emmanuel

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gpsd, depends on openMotif!?
by Andre-John Mas 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi, I decided to install gpsd and for some strange reason it depends on openMotif. I thought gpsd was meant to be purely command-line daemon. Any reason for the dependency on openMotif? Andre

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PkgConfig checksum failure
by Michael Cook 15 May '07

15 May '07

I'd been getting this error for the last two or three days - at least since since Friday May 11. At first I figured someone must be working on something and that it would sort itself out when a new version of the file was available. Also, I read somewhere that a mirror gets refreshed weekly(?), but I still kept getting the same as other folks have reported: port install php5 ---> Verifying checksum(s) for pkgconfig Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz Error: Target com.apple.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums Error: The following dependencies failed to build: curl pkgconfig expat freetype gettext libiconv jpeg libmcrypt libpng libxml2 libxslt mhash pcre tiff Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. This happened twice more just yesterday. Looking at Ryan's post of May 6th, I went to http:// pkgconfig.freedesktop.org, saw pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz at http:// pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/, and was able to download it and un-tar it successfully. I looked in /opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/pkgconfig and found the cause of my continuing problem to be a truncated pkg- config-0.21.tar.gz, only 238 bytes in length. I copied the good file to /opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/ pkgconfig and now my install seems to be running happily. I'm new to Darwinports/Macports, but have used Fink and Fink Commander quite a bit previously and never had a similar problem. I haven't dug into how Darwinports/Macports works, but I will. Meantime, shouldn't "port install" be able to trap such an error and recover from it by downloading the file again? Michael Cook mcook2(a)mts.net 204-452-2720 http://www.michaelcook.ca and http://www.skyprod.net

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subversion install error (file already exists)
by mark brethen 15 May '07

15 May '07

I get this error when trying to install subversion. The following ports are currently installed: apr @1.2.8_0 (active) frotz @2.43_0 (active) lesstif @0.93.94_0 (active) libid3tag @0.15.1b_0 (active) libmad @0.15.1b_0 (active) libogg @1.1.2_0 libogg @1.1.3_0 (active) libvorbis @1.1.0_0 libvorbis @1.1.2_0 (active) mp3splt @2.1_0 mutella @0.4.3_0 mutella @0.4.5_0 (active) readline @5.0.005_0 readline @5.1.004_0 (active) xephem @3.5.2_0 (active) brethen-familys-Computer:~ marbre$ sudo port install subversion ---> Staging db44 into destroot Error: Target com.apple.destroot returned: error deleting "/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ _opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dp orts_databases_db44/work/destroot/opt/local/share/db44-4.4.20/api_c": file already exists Error: The following dependencies failed to build: apr-util db44 expat libiconv neon gettext openssl zlib Looking for some help with this one. Mark mailto:mbrethen@aim.com

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hosting an internal macports server with binaries
by Rick Gigger 15 May '07

15 May '07

Is it possible to have an internal macports mirror that also contains binaries, so I can compile all the ports I need once and install them on several boxes instead of re-compiling everything on every single box? Thanks, Rick Gigger

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gnuplot without tetex
by mark abney 14 May '07

14 May '07

Is there some way to upgrade gnuplot to the current 4.2 without installing tetex? I currently have Tex Live 2007 installed and don't want to have to install a whole new (and outdated) tex. Looking at the gnuplot website I can't tell what the dependency on tex is, besides perhaps to build documentation. If that's the case, surely it could just use my installed tex. When I looked at the portfile it has under depends_libs bin:tex:tetex, which suggests to me that if it finds the binary 'tex' it shouldn't install tetex. For some reason (or maybe I'm just wrong) this doesn't work. Does port run under some restricted environment that prevents it from seeing my full path and so it doesn't find tex? I even tried deleting this line from the dependencies, but that didn't work (and doing a port clean --all gnuplot). So, what can be done to stop port from installing tetex? Mark A ____________________________________________________________________________________Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php

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