Update on Macports boost-1_34_1 install failure. Tried a second time without doing anything and there were no errors. Not sure what that means for the developers of the port, but for users it means: "if at first port doesn't succedd, try again" I still think we should report such occurrences as a bug that same way most comiler warnings should be heeded: it indicates something is a miss that might causes trouble later. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> Date: Mar 20, 2008 11:17 PM Subject: Re: Boost install failure: seems like makefile configure To: Daniel Lord <daniel@brightfire.com> Cc: Users MacPorts <macports-users@delta.macosforge.org> On Mar 21, 2008, at 01:03, Daniel Lord wrote:
On 3/20/08, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Mar 21, 2008, at 00:30, Daniel Lord wrote:
My env: Macbook Pro Leopard 10.5.1 with dev tools
Here is the transcript of the install attempt:
$sudo port -v install boost ---> Building boost with target all Makefile:2: *** missing separator. Stop. Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_deve l
_boost/work/boost_1_34_1" && gmake all " returned error 2 Command output: Makefile:2: *** missing separator. Stop.
Warning: the following items did not execute (for boost): org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
This problem has already been reported:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13714
Please read through the discussion there.
Sure, but strangely, the second attempt is building !?!?!?! I did nothing, just started the 'port instal'l again and now it sailed through ( though still not complete as I write this). I have to wonder if the Macport doesn't take into account all states the build might encounter and that there is some race condition in prequisites. A race condition that goes away after one install attempt because a file or directory was made before bailing whose absebce caused teh bail out...or something...I don't have a clue. All I know is it is strange.
I couldn't say. Don't forget to reply to the list too, not just to me, for the benefit of anyone else reading this thread.