Re: A question about the bind example file provided by MacPorts

2011-01-03 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Dec 30, 2010, at 5:23 PM, William H. Magill wrote: The bind example file: db.127.0.0.dist differs slightly from the one which I have been using for many years now. The example file contains: $ORIGIN localhost. and 1D IN NS@ for the bind9

errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Scofield
I'm effectively unable to use port (I have version 1.9.2) now on my Mac using OS 10.6.5. I tried using it today to get VLC, but have had similar problems in the past getting other ports. Here is the content of messages: [Users/scofield] install VLC --- Computing dependencies for

gfmt and editing of system files

2011-01-03 Thread David Epstein
I just installed Leopard (was on Tiger). Then I did sudo port selfupdate which succeeded. I also did some cleaning up, in the course of which I lost gfmt that I use all the time. Q1. The puzzle for me is: how do I find out which port in Macports contains gfmt? Q2. Which system files am I

inkscape 0.48.0_1 launch failure

2011-01-03 Thread Ivan Kawaler
Inkscape managed to launch correctly the first time, but ever since I have been getting an error: Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now. I'm working on a PPC machine with a recently completed, clean install of 10.5.8, and a clean install of MacPorts and selected ports.

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2011, at 09:57, Thomas Scofield wrote: I'm effectively unable to use port (I have version 1.9.2) now on my Mac using OS 10.6.5. I tried using it today to get VLC, but have had similar problems in the past getting other ports. Note that VLC is a problematic port to install with

Re: inkscape 0.48.0_1 launch failure

2011-01-03 Thread ~suv
On 3/1/11 21:54, Ivan Kawaler wrote: Inkscape managed to launch correctly the first time, but ever since I have been getting an error: Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now. I'm working on a PPC machine with a recently completed, clean install of 10.5.8, and a clean

Re: gfmt and editing of system files

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:44, David Epstein wrote: I just installed Leopard (was on Tiger). Then I did sudo port selfupdate which succeeded. When you change major versions of Mac OS X, you'll need to manually install the latest Xcode from Apple, and also uninstall and reinstall all ports.

Re: bind9 / named questions

2011-01-03 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 2, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: --cut here-- ... so which file is stderr for something running from launchd? As best I can tell, it's /var/log/system.log, but I don't know that for a fact. Hmm, could be system.log,

Re: A question about the bind example file provided by MacPorts

2011-01-03 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Dec 30, 2010, at 5:23 PM, William H. Magill wrote: The bind example file: db.127.0.0.dist differs slightly from the one which I have been using for many years now. The example file contains: $ORIGIN localhost. and

Re: bind9 / named questions

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2011, at 15:14, William H. Magill wrote: ... so which file is stderr for something running from launchd? As best I can tell, it's /var/log/system.log, but I don't know that for a fact. Hmm, could be system.log, though the MacPorts Guide says the default is not to log

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Scofield
You seem to be missing perl, though it is one of p5-locale-gettext's dependencies. Please clean p5-locale-gettext and try again: sudo port clean p5-locale-gettext sudo port install p5-locale-gettext If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and active: port

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Thomas Scofield wrote: You seem to be missing perl, though it is one of p5-locale- gettext's dependencies. Please clean p5-locale-gettext and try again: sudo port clean p5-locale-gettext sudo port install p5-locale-gettext If that fails the same way, verify

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
[Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org (2011-01-03 21:03:37 UTC)] If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and active: port installed perl5.8 perl5 If they are, you could try reinstalling them: sudo port -n upgrade --force perl5.8 perl5 Indeed, that is almost

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: [Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org (2011-01-03 21:03:37 UTC)] If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and active: port installed perl5.8 perl5 If they are, you could try reinstalling them: sudo port -n

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2011, at 16:18, Thomas Scofield wrote: You seem to be missing perl, though it is one of p5-locale-gettext's dependencies. Please clean p5-locale-gettext and try again: sudo port clean p5-locale-gettext sudo port install p5-locale-gettext If that fails the same way, verify

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Scofield
On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: [Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org (2011-01-03 21:03:37 UTC)] If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and active: port installed perl5.8 perl5

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2011, at 17:15, Thomas Scofield wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: What does the following produce for output. $ port contents perl5 $ port contents perl5.8 Mac20952:notes scofield$ port contents perl5 Port perl5 contains: /opt/local/bin/perl5

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Sending this reply back to the list... On Jan 3, 2011, at 17:33, Thomas Scofield wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Er, right. Sorry, I forgot, /opt/local/bin/perl is provided by perl5.8 not perl5. Either way, it looks like /opt/local/bin/perl is supposed to be