[MacPorts] #30574: Bug: MacPorts 2.0.1 "too many levels of symbolic links"

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Thu Aug 4 00:00:51 PDT 2011


#30574: Bug: MacPorts 2.0.1 "too many levels of symbolic links"
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 Reporter:  alantech@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  base                |     Version:  2.0.1                                
 Keywords:                      |        Port:                                       
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Changes (by jmr@…):

  * milestone:  MacPorts Future =>


Old description:

> After installing MacPorts 2.0.1 on a new machine (i.e. no prior version
> installed,) I get the following error messages in trying to access the
> port command for anything:
> couldn't read file
> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/macports_fastload.tcl": too
> many levels of symbolic links
>     while executing
> "source [file join "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl" macports1.0
> macports_fastload.tcl]"
>     (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 37)
>
> In examining /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0, I find that it is
> a symlink that points to /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0, in
> other words, a circular link.

New description:

 After installing MacPorts 2.0.1 on a new machine (i.e. no prior version
 installed,) I get the following error messages in trying to access the
 port command for anything:
 {{{
 couldn't read file
 "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/macports_fastload.tcl": too
 many levels of symbolic links
     while executing
 "source [file join "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl" macports1.0
 macports_fastload.tcl]"
     (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 37)
 }}}
 In examining /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0, I find that it is
 a symlink that points to /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0, in
 other words, a circular link.

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Comment:

 How did you install?

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30574#comment:1>
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