Hi Gary, I don't understand why deleting the distfile helped; my only suggestion is that the "sudo port clean libcompat" didn't actually work properly, and the distfile deletion forced it. I also don't imagine that you'd had a different distfile when the build was failing, as it would have failed the checksum step, so I don't think that that was a problem. As for fetching from distfiles- od.opendarwin.org, that is definitely the only place from which libcompat is currently distributed, but it (along with distfiles from quite a few other ports) ought to be copied onto macports.org as that server will be shut down sooner or later; there are other people working on that, I think, so I'll see how they think it should be dealt with. Kind regards, Maun Suang On 19/04/2007, at 13:55, Gary Ross wrote:

Hello, Thanks for your help.

OK. This is what I did:

I deleted the

/opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/libcompat/libcompat-4.6.2- RELEASE.tar.bz2

file manually.

Then I did:

sudo port -d -v install libcompat

and it worked fine.

I'm sure this is not the correct way to do it, but it seemed to work.

Obviously when the libcompat-4.6.2-RELEASE.tar.bz2 was found to be missing it tried to fetch it. But at first it couldn't find the file because it couldn't connect:

---> Attempting to fetch libcompat-4.6.2-RELEASE.tar.bz2 from http://distfiles-od.opendarwin.org/libcompat % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:01:01 --:--:-- 0 DEBUG: Fetching failed:: HTTP response code said error ---> Attempting to fetch libcompat-4.6.2-RELEASE.tar.bz2 from http://distfiles-msn.opendarwin.org/libcompat % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0 DEBUG: Fetching failed:: HTTP response code said error ---> Attempting to fetch libcompat-4.6.2-RELEASE.tar.bz2 from http://distfiles-od.opendarwin.org/ % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 25877 100 25877 0 0 26386 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 48505

Should it still be fetching from http://distfiles-od.opendarwin.org/ ?

Perhaps this is the root of my original problem. I think it wasn't fetching the latest version until I forced it to do so by deleting the bz2 file.

Gary

On Apr 19, 2007, at 12:26 AM, Boey Maun Suang wrote:

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Hi Gary,

On 19/04/2007, at 00:58, Gary Ross wrote:

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Sorry, I still get the same error after doing this:

506 sudo /opt/local/bin/port -v selfupdate 507 sudo port clean libcompat 508 sudo port -d -v install libcompat

powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1:

libcompat.1.dylib: No such file or directory

*** Error code 1

Is your machine Intel or PowerPC ?

This seems odd to me. I'm running on Intel (and Mac OS X 10.4.9), but it seems to me that the architecture really shouldn't make a difference; I've checked against the PPC Darwin sources online, and there doesn't seem to be a difference between the bsd.*.mk files that are called, and I'd be very surprised if gcc was behaving differently between platforms in this way. Still, it is a possibility, so if you post the output of "sudo -td install libcompat" after cleaning libcompat (or from your original "sudo port -d -v install libcompat" if you still have it), that might help me figure out what's happening.

Thanks,

Maun Suang

-- Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) Email: boeyms@macports.org

-- Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) Email: boeyms@macports.org