On Nov 28, 2007, at 07:06, Tony Tambasco wrote:
I've recently become the proud owner of a ibook running 10.3, but have had some trouble getting macports to work in general. Specifically, I am trying to get gimp2 to install, but whenever I try I get output like the following, which just loops forever, swapping in different port names...
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ gnome/libgnomeui DEBUG: Requested variant powerpc is not provided by port libgnomeui. DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port libgnomeui. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port libgnomeui. DEBUG: Searching for dependency: libgnomeui DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: libgnomeui DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ ports/gnome/libgtkhtml DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ gnome/libgtkhtml DEBUG: Requested variant powerpc is not provided by port libgtkhtml. DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port libgtkhtml. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port libgtkhtml. DEBUG: Searching for dependency: libgtkhtml DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: libgtkhtml DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ ports/graphics/libmng
I'm running xcode 1.5 and I do have x11user installed, and yes, I tried re-installing macports. All to no avail. I've tried a couple other ports, notably gtk2 by itself, and pidgin, and get the same results. I have, however, been able to successfully install unrar.
The output you're showing us is not an error, but just the normal process of figuring out a port's dependencies (with debug output). It should eventually (up to a few minutes?) begin downloading and configuring something. gimp has many many dependencies. You can see the graph here (generated in October; may be slightly out of date): http://www.ryandesign.com/tmp/gimp.png It will probably take a very very long time (many hours, if not days) to install all this on your computer. You'll have to be patient. You can put your computer to sleep any time and it should resume when you wake it back up. Since you're getting debug output, I assume you've typed "sudo port - d install gimp"? Or what command did you use?