Error in w3m Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 17, 2007, at 16:31, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

>>>>>> "Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> (DJL) wrote:
>
>> DJL> On Dec 17, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>>>> Installing w3m fails because in the portfile the line
>>>> checksums           md5 ba06992d3207666ed1bf2dcf7c72bf58
>>>> contains spaces rather than a TAB.
>
>> DJL> no, either should be fine. (and it checksums fine here for me).
>
>> DJL> Perhaps if you explain what problem you're actually seeing  
>> someone on
>> DJL> the list will be able to help?
>
> I got this error:
>
> --->  Fetching w3m
> --->  Attempting to fetch w3m-0.5.2.tar.gz from http:// 
> downloads.sourceforge.net/w3m
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for w3m
> Error: No checksum set for w3m-0.5.2.tar.gz
> Error: No checksum set for w3m-0.5.2.tar.gz
> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file  
> checksums
>
> After replacing the spaces with a TAB it compiled without problems.

That doesn't make sense to me. I've never seen that error message  
before and, like Daniel, I cannot reproduce it here. Are you sure  
your MacPorts and your ports tree are up to date? Try "sudo port  
selfupdate" then try installing w3m again.