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Can't build GNU Octave because of missing/broken hdf5?
by Erik de Castro Lopo 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hi all, I'm trying to build GNU Octave, but one of the pre-requisites hdf5 seems broken: ---> Fetching hdf5 ---> Attempting to fetch hdf5-1.6.5.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src/ ---> Attempting to fetch hdf5-1.6.5.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/hdf5 ---> Attempting to fetch hdf5-1.6.5.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ ---> Attempting to fetch hdf5-1.6.5.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/hdf5 Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed Error: The following dependencies failed to build: hdf5 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. What should I do to fix it? Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- Beware the Lollipop of Mediocrity. Lick it once, and you suck forever.

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Re: Can't build GNU Octave because of missing/broken hdf5?
by Ryan Schmidt 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

On Sep 5, 2007, at 04:25, Bernard Desgraupes wrote: > Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Sep 5, 2007, at 02:53, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to build GNU Octave, but one of the pre-requisites hdf5 >>> seems broken: >>> >>> ---> Fetching hdf5 >>> ---> Attempting to fetch hdf5-1.6.5.tar.gz from ftp:// >>> ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src/ >>> ---> Attempting to fetch hdf5-1.6.5.tar.gz from http:// >>> svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/hdf5 >>> ---> Attempting to fetch hdf5-1.6.5.tar.gz from http:// >>> svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ >>> ---> Attempting to fetch hdf5-1.6.5.tar.gz from http:// >>> svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/hdf5 >>> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed >>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: hdf5 >>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. >>> >>> What should I do to fix it? >> >> A bug about hdf5 has already been filed: >> >> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12592 >> >> The maintainer has not yet responded. > > I have built octave two days ago and have met this same problem. > Here's the recipe. To work around it, edit the Portfile (/opt/local/ > var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/science/hdf5/ > Portfile) > and modify two things: > * the version : replace 1.6.5 by 1.6.6 > * the checksum: I did not keep a copy of the new checksum, but > after you changed the version and tried again to "port install > hdf5" there will be an error message in which the checksum is > printed. So replace the current value by the expected one. No the > build should go fine. > > When hdf5 has completed its build, execute > sudo port install octave > to finish the job. Then perhaps you could attach a diff to the ticket?

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libxml2 checksum failure
by Eduard Grebe 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Hi I've been trying to install the latex2rtf port, but it fails due to a checksum failure on the libxml2 port on which latex2rt depends. I get the following message: ---> Verifying checksum(s) for libxml2 ---> Checksumming libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz Portfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz md5 ddf3c369964980a238fad0b6ad40532c Distfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz md5 b18db4aebd7694a120e88e79688ad84f Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz Portfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz sha1 7642a52799efde2e0163d322b2aee8cd9f583268 Distfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz sha1 9786a6807b5fbf666623fbfc54789bafe0cbbf89 Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz Portfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz rmd160 65d0c2cef5ce40751bd72bb54462d9122558fa17 Distfile checksum: libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz rmd160 672c85e355c0c304676086a935ade45f35ffe4ec Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums Warning: the following items did not execute (for libxml2): org.macports.activate org.macports.extract org.macports.checksum org.macports.patch org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. Does anyone know whether the problem is that the portfile is out of date? Is there a workaround? Thanks -- Eduard Grebe Aids & Society Research Unit University of Cape Town Tel: +27 21 650 4659 Mobile: +27 83 3840600 Fax: +27 86 671 0195 voip (SIP): 1090(a)voip.lagged.za.net skype: eduardgrebe IM: eduardgrebe(a)gmail.com on Jabber PO Box 50639, Waterfront, 8002 OpenPGP public key: http://maanskyn.za.net/key.txt (or 2C9B8227 on keyserver.pgp.com)

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Re: How to handle different versions of Python
by Derek Harland 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

>> is there something we can do about these duplicated ports? As we have >> now a python-3.0 devel port there could be much more ports just for >> this >> version. >> >> Wouldn't be a bin:python:python24/25/30 better? >> The python ports (python24, python25, python30) could create a >> symbolic >> link named "python" so it should be there and can be checked. >> >> And for ports which need a specific version we could just check for >> that >> one (bin:python25:python25). > > I don't use python. But I believe the idea was that there are > significant differences between python 2.4 and 2.5, and that there is > some software that works with 2.4 but not 2.5, some that works with > 2.5 but not 2.4, and some that works with both 2.4 and 2.5 but with > significant changes in how that's done. So the decision was to have > separate portfiles. I have no information on how python 3.0 fits into > the picture now. Perhaps someone who uses python can comment. The issues are really around how one might support *multiple* installations of python on a box. For example, I run python2.4 in production, 2.5 in development and am fiddling around with the SVN Head of python3. Thus I might need to install a package for each of these pythons because: (i) a python package will want to install itself into the "usual" place, which is /opt/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages (ii) if it contains c-code, it will want to compile itself against a specific python version as the ABI may change. (iii) in very rare cases, you might want to be downloading/compiling a different source file as the author may have released different versions for 2.4 and 2.5 to take advantage of new features in 2.5 Its not really sufficient to just check that *python* exists and install it using that version. Doing so would mean (i) only that version of python would find it on its default import path (given above) (ii) other versions installed by macports would not see it. If you hacked their import path, you would be importing c-modules compiled against a different library version and warnings would be issued This is further complicated by the fact that python3.x is *not* language compatible with the 2.x branch. It will require library writers to review their code and definitely issue a separate release for it (and of course, expect a lot of small little utilised libraries never to be converted) Within the macports framework, it would appear that you either need a separate portfile per python version, or a single portfile with variants +pythonx.x derek.

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vncserver with Aqua gui
by Michael Thon 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Greetings - I am setting up a mac with multiple remote users. The users would like to have access to the standard Mac OS desktop via vnc. From what I have found so far on the internet, this might be possible as long as multiple user switching is enabled (which it is). I installed tightvnc and got vncserver running but is is showing me an X desktop instead. does anyone know how to get the Aqua desktop displayed? thanks Mike

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Problem with MacPorts 1.5 & Boost Install
by luis cota 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Just downloaded and installed MacPorts 1.5 and ran: sudo port install boost The download completed and the build seemed to execute without a problem. Next, I tried: man boost -> failed, no entry found locate boost -> libs found in various places, usr/include/... , /Developer/SDKs/.../bits/ which boost -> failed apropos boost -> failed (nothing appropriate) Any ideas on what could be going wrong? Thanks!

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How to handle different versions of Python
by Susan Mackay 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

I'm fairly new to Macports so please forgive me if this is an 'dumb' question. I am trying to build gtk-sharp, which uses avahi which, in turn, uses py-gdbm. For various reasons, I have both python2.4 and python2.5 installed (both installed as dependencies for other packages - I have no knowledge of python and have not installed either from 'choice'). When configuring avahi, it could not find py-gdbm although the 'ports installed' command listed it as active. It turns out that the python 'sys.path' command includes all of the pythin2.5 directories, but the py-gdbm package installs into the python2.4 directories. I have subsequently changed the avahi dependency from 'py-gdbm' to 'py25-gdbm' and it has installed correctly. However I don't think that this should be the sort of thing that I should be 'playing' with. What is the correct process that I should be using to handle this situation? It would appear that the python packages are tied to a specific version and are not generic. Is this right? Thanks Susan

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normalize ports seems to have disapeared...
by Erwan David 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

The abcde port depends on normalize. However, the normalize port is broken (source page does not exists) and seems to have no maintainer. What can we do for this ? (there is a normlize at http://normalize.nongnu.org/ which might be the same, but I do not know if it is the case.) -- Erwan

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Re: Installing Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL5 using PortAuthority
by Ryan Schmidt 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

On Sep 4, 2007, at 15:15, Steve Klein wrote: > Disregard my last message. > > I figured out how to uninstall the variants of PHP5, then re- > installed the one I wanted. > > I've edited my httpd.conf file, and Apache2 is now properly serving > up PHP pages! > > Right now I'm installing phpMyAdmin. We'll see how things go from > here. > > Thanks to Ryan, Mark, and Matthias for your help. Glad you got it working! If you're using the MacPorts phpMyAdmin port, note that it's a little out of date. You could probably update it to the current version if you like.

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Re: Installing Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL5 using PortAuthority
by Ryan Schmidt 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

On Sep 4, 2007, at 14:52, Steve Klein wrote: > On Sep 4, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> To get PHP 5 with MySQL 5 support and the Apache 2 libphp5.so >> module, and get the apache2 port installed as well: >> >> sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 > > That's what I want. So I tried that, and got this error: > > ---> Activating php5 5.2.4_0+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5 > Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: Another > version of this port (php5 @5.2.4_0+darwin_8+macosx) is already > active. > Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. > > So now I have, it seems, two copies of PHP5. > > Ryan, I appreciate any help you can give me. Sure, no problem. By the way, please use Reply To All when you reply, so that your mail goes to the mailing list too, and not just to me. So you need to uninstall that other php5 first, using: sudo port uninstall php5 @5.2.4_0+darwin_8+macosx Then you can activate the new php5 you built: sudo port activate php5

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