Re: FYI - MacPorts selfupdate fails… v 1.9.2 to 2.0.3 .. no log file produced (in an obvious place) w Xcode 4.0.2 - OSX 10.7.1

Scott Webster sewebster at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 17:36:48 PDT 2011


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2011, at 14:52, William H. Magill wrote:
>
>> Note: this particular error happened before I realized I did not upgrade Xcode on this machine…. was Xcode 4.0.2 -- OSX 10.7.1. (However, it failed again after updating to Xcode 4.1.)
>> This posting is simply "for the record" -- that the message needs to be expanded :).
>
> "the message": you mean the message "see log for details"? That's a generic error printed any time any shell command files, so it can't be more specific. We could print an additional message with the log location; we do that for port installs already.

Printing the location would be nice.  I have tried and failed to find
such a log in the past.  Perhaps it really does not exist, or it ends
up being deleted somehow at the end of the selfupdate process.

Scott


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