Re: Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

2008-11-14 Thread Tim Visher
That works! It's funny but I'm kinda new to the whole `alias` thing, so I hadn't even thought of doing that. I really need to remember that's there. I guess we'll assume that the issue was somewhere in the fact that I was symlinking it. Thanks again, Ryan! On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:29 AM,

Re: Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

2008-11-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-11-14 00:29:03 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: alias emacs='open -a /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app' This won't work with options. It's better to write a wrapper script. I use the following one: #!/bin/sh app=Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs #emacs=/Applications/$app test -x $emacs ||

avr-gcc: command not found error

2008-11-14 Thread ex99125b
newbie, using macports (via darwin ports instructions at http://wiki.monome.org/view/InstallingDevToolsOnOsX ) When trying to do a make. Wont build-- error avr-gcc: command not found. Path is correct, can enter avr-gcc in terminal with correct no input files response. Path to avr-gcc also

trouble with gnome-terminal

2008-11-14 Thread tmaurizio
Hallo all, I try to install gnome with macport, I have downloaded all Gnome ports and activated all, now rest only GNOME-TERMINAL and GNOME-DESKTOP-SUITE ; them don' t wont build. I have tried in the web, without success, can you help me, or give a suggestion where to try? regards

Re: Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

2008-11-14 Thread Tim Visher
Thanks for the tip, vincent. I implemented what you suggested and it appears to work. On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-11-14 00:29:03 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: alias emacs='open -a /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app' This won't work with

Re: Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

2008-11-14 Thread Jordan Hubbard
JFYI, but to correct a misapprehension here, open does take arguments (for the launched process) so your original idea would have also worked if you had used a shell function instead of an alias and passed the args through with $* HTH Sent from my iPhone On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:01, Tim

Re: trouble with gnome-terminal

2008-11-14 Thread Bryan Blackburn
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 06:56:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hallo all, I try to install gnome with macport, I have downloaded all Gnome ports and activated all, now rest only GNOME-TERMINAL and GNOME-DESKTOP-SUITE ; them don' t wont build. I have tried in the web, without success,

Re: Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

2008-11-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-11-14 10:12:22 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: JFYI, but to correct a misapprehension here, open does take arguments (for the launched process) so your original idea would have also worked Here (10.4.11) open doesn't take arguments: prunille:~ open -a /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app

mysql5 +server install

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Brian Bentley
I just tried to install mysql5, and I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it a couple times. It appears to install a zero-length /opt/local/var/db/mysql5/mysql/user.MYD file, apparently making it difficult to log into mysql root and access things. Has anyone else run into that problem? We

Re: Is /opt/local/var/db/dports still used?

2008-11-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 14, 2008, at 21:12, Joe Davison wrote: Recently, when I did the selfupdate (to version 1.6?) on one of my machines, I got a message saying some stuff may have been left in / opt/local/var/db/dports... in the move to ...var/macports and I should take care of it myself. That message

Re: mysql5 +server install

2008-11-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 14, 2008, at 13:22, Michael Brian Bentley wrote: I just tried to install mysql5, and I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it a couple times. It appears to install a zero- length /opt/local/var/db/mysql5/mysql/user.MYD file, apparently making it difficult to log into mysql root

Re: Is /opt/local/var/db/dports still used?

2008-11-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 14, 2008, at 22:03, Joe Davison wrote: What's in that directory on your system? summary is a couple of build trees and source for rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate1/base My guess is that's the 1.6 update itself? Here's a fuller, but still abbreviated, list -- db db/dports

Re: mysql5 +server install

2008-11-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 14, 2008, at 23:13, Michael Brian Bentley wrote: At 9:25 PM -0600 11/14/08, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 14, 2008, at 13:22, Michael Brian Bentley wrote: I just tried to install mysql5, and I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it a couple times. It appears to install a zero-