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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hello, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>I’m trying to write a local portfile that compiles and sets up a project hosted on github.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>To test my portfile, I’ve initialised a local repository in /Users/account _name/Documents/macports, followed the standard hierarchy and indexed my package via portindex command. All of these things went OK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>But I can’t install my package via ‘port install’ because MacPorts throws me the following error:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>“Unable to execute port: Could not open file: /Users/…/Documents/macports/… /Portfile”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>I have the file in that directory, I can open and write it. So I don’t know what the problem is.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>Permissions are all set to macports:macports 755, both directories and files; port lint doesn’t find any error related to Portfile; I have sources.conf with my local repository.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>I tried to debug the install command. Here’s the output:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Copying /Users/corsaro/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/corsaro/Documents/macports/graphics/kwm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: OS darwin/16.0.0 (Mac OS X 10.12) arch i386<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Sourcing PortGroup github 1.0 from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/github-1.0.tcl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: adding the default universal variant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Finished running callback portconfigure::add_automatic_compiler_dependencies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Finished running callback portbuild::add_automatic_buildsystem_dependencies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: dropping privileges: euid changed to 502, egid changed to 501.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Could not open file: /Users/corsaro/Documents/macports/graphics/kwm/Portfile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'> while executing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>"sha256 file ${portpath}/Portfile"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'> (procedure "open_statefile" line 52)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>"open_statefile"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'> (procedure "check_variants" line 28)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>"check_variants activate"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>"$workername eval check_variants $target"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'> (procedure "mportexec" line 7)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>"mportexec $workername $target"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>Error: Unable to execute port: Could not open file: /Users/corsaro/Documents/macports/graphics/kwm/Portfile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>DEBUG: Checking time since last reclaim run<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks for your helpful advice!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>