yelp will not install

David Evans devans at macports.org
Sat Dec 11 18:12:42 PST 2010


On 12/11/10 2:57 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Something strange happened.
>
> I had gnome installed via macports.
>
> I wanted to look at the docs for gnome. They are in docbook format. So I decided to install yelp!
>
> When I executed sudo port install yelp
> port started installing a lot of port that where already installed as universals. Then it first computed the dependancies for
> yelp and said it can not install yelp because there is no i386 version of nss!
>
> 1) I did not ask for a yelp+universal in the first place!
> 2) yelps port file must be hosed! 
>
>
> question does it hurt to have the universals installed. if so what is the best method to get rid of them?
>
> regards
> 	Keith
>
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Note that yelp will build in 32 bit mode on a 64 bit machine if you
install xulrunner +internal_dependencies.
This works around the problem with nss (which will build either 32 bit
or 64 bit but not universal).




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