dpkg problems

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:18:09PM -0600, Michael Mensinger said:
> what do I do with 'cd `port work expat`/*'    ???
> all it did was put my directory to Applications
>
> Menz-MacBook:~ Mike$ cd `port work expat`/*
> Menz-MacBook:Applications Mike$
> now what? sorry i'm new....

Sounds like maybe the work dir was cleaned, though cd'ing to multiple
directories should have resulted in an error...

If just 'port work expat' returns nothing at all, then it was cleaned,
though I thought autoclean only kicked in when things were successful.

Bryan


>
> On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:33:04PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston said:
>>>
>>> On Jan 15, 2009, at 13:24, Joshua Root wrote:
>>>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:  
>>>>> error:
>>>>> C
>>>>> compiler cannot create executables
>>>>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>>>
>>
>>>> <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#IgettheerrorCcompilercannotcreateexecutableswhenItrytoinstallaport
>>>>>
>>>
>>> And if that doesn't work, look through config.log "for more details".
>>> It'll be somewhere in $prefix/var/macports/build/*expat/work ...  
>>> likely
>>> /opt/local/var/macports/build/*expat/work/expat-*/config.log
>>
>> Or just 'cd `port work expat`/*'.
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>>>
>>> --Jeremy
>
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