On Saturday, August 04, 2007, at 08:53PM, "Chris Pickel" <sfiera@macports.org> wrote:
On 04 Aug, 2007, at 22:40, Jody Paul wrote:
I am having trouble when I attempt to install any ports that depend on ncurses. Running on a MacBook Pro (Intel) with OS X 10.4.10 I get the following when trying to install the ncurses port. Any advice on what I should be doing to make this work? Thanks!!!
Is there any chance that your MacPorts installation was copied/ migrated from a ppc Mac? I see two problems in your transcript: * it's referring to /opt/local/lib/libformw.dylib etc., which are installed by ncursesw, and shouldn't be there if ncursesw hasn't yet been installed * it's saying that these files are compiled for ppc
The simplest explanation is that these files were put there by a ppc installation of MacPorts. If that's the case, the simplest solution is to move /opt/local aside and reinstall from the disk image. If you can't install ncurses, I'm guessing you haven't been able to install much at all.
Chris
Thanks, that solved the problem. Was definitely due to a migrated system. Interesting that the selfupdate worked fine as did upgrade to quite a number of other ports... wasn't until I tried updating ncurses that the problem showed up. Thanks again! --J