lvm-3.3 problem with sierra

2016-10-09 Thread Comer Duncan
I tried to follow the upgrade procedure and eventually got the complaint that lvm-3.3 is not supported. I'm attaching the log file and ask for advice about ways around this obstacle. Thanks for your help! Comer Sierralogfile Description: Binary data

Re: use of cpus in building

2016-05-25 Thread Comer Duncan
Thanks Justin for the perspective! This 'thread' has helped me a lot in understanding some aspects of the ins and outs of using more cores and more threads. Comer On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > > On May 25, 2016, at 14:42 , Adam Dershowitz wrote: >

Re: use of cpus in building

2016-05-25 Thread Comer Duncan
Thanks! I like this option for those builds I do as a one-off. Comer On Wednesday, May 25, 2016, Adam Dershowitz wrote: > > > > On May 25, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Brandon Allbery > wrote: > > On Wed, May

Re: use of cpus in building

2016-05-25 Thread Comer Duncan
Ok. Thanks for the info! Comer On Wednesday, May 25, 2016, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Jones < > jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk > > wrote: >> >> you don’t. Its automatic for the

Re: use of cpus in building

2016-05-25 Thread Comer Duncan
Hi Brandon, So, where to I set 'make -j 4' so I get ports to try with 4 cores? Comer On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Comer Duncan <comer.dun...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am wondering

use of cpus in building

2016-05-25 Thread Comer Duncan
I am wondering whether the macports build system automatically uses as many cpus as are installed? I have a macbook pro with 4 cores and would hope I can help speed up builds by making all four cores be used. Am I dreaming? Thanks for your help. Comer

Re: problem updating pypy

2016-03-12 Thread Comer Duncan
gt; > Sent from my iPod > > On Mar 12, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Comer Duncan <comer.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have issued: sudo port update pypy > > and pretty quickly got back the following in the main.log: > > version:1 > :msg:main ---> Computing d

problem updating pypy

2016-03-12 Thread Comer Duncan
I have issued: sudo port update pypy and pretty quickly got back the following in the main.log: version:1 :msg:main ---> Computing dependencies for pypy:info:main .:debug:main pypy has no conflicts :debug:main Searching for dependency: pkgconfig :debug:main Found Dependency: receipt exists for

clang-format?

2015-07-04 Thread Comer Duncan
Is clang-format available from macports? Thanks. Comer ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Status of gfortran?

2015-03-07 Thread Comer Duncan
Can someone please tell me the status of gfortran for yosemite? I am having not luck in finding gfortran on macports. There is g95 but I have not installed it. Looking around a bit it seems that gcc apparently compiles fortran code? That is gnu cc. But what is its relation to macports ports?

problem with build

2014-10-19 Thread Comer Duncan
--- Fetching archive for apple-gcc42 --- Attempting to fetch apple-gcc42-5666.3_14.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/apple-gcc42 --- Attempting to fetch apple-gcc42-5666.3_14.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/apple-gcc42 --- Attempting to

Yosemite upgrade

2014-10-18 Thread Comer Duncan
Yesterday I installed Yosemite but have not yet done either selfupdate or upgrade outdated. Before I do that I am wondering whether there are any recommendations as to whether it is too early to upgrade since perhaps macports code developers need some time to get essentials ready for such? I sort

can't upgrade py27-zmq

2014-04-14 Thread Comer Duncan
I have today run across a failure to update py27-zmq. The output seems non-instructive so I am hoping to get some help. I paste the output of my attempt here: comermacpro:MarkFiniteDiffDerivativs comerduncan$ sudo port upgrade py27-zmq --- Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0% ---

Fwd: can't upgrade py27-zmq

2014-04-14 Thread Comer Duncan
Sorry, I forgot to include the list when replying to Brandon. Here is what I sent. -- Forwarded message -- From: Comer Duncan comer.dun...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:30 PM Subject: Re: can't upgrade py27-zmq To: Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com Thanks Brandon

database?

2014-03-18 Thread Comer Duncan
Just curious. What's the story about the absence of the ports database for a couple of days it seems? Thanks. Comer ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Lmod for macports?

2014-03-11 Thread Comer Duncan
I have in the past found that lmod ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmod/files/) is quite useful for managing environments and associated software needed for a particular project or projects. However, I have only used it in a supercomputer environment. I wonder whether some of you may know about

MacVim?

2014-01-13 Thread Comer Duncan
Today I have installed the macports flavor of vim. It seems fine. Next I tried to install vim-app but port told me that vim-app does not work and I should rather install MacVim. So, I did or rather think I did. When I issue comermacpro:~ comerduncan$ port installed vim MacVim The following

Re: MacVim?

2014-01-13 Thread Comer Duncan
I cannot verify this. Kind Regards, Brian Wisti http://randomgeekery.org On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Comer Duncan comer.dun...@gmail.com wrote: Today I have installed the macports flavor of vim. It seems fine. Next I tried to install vim-app but port told me that vim-app does

python24

2013-12-30 Thread Comer Duncan
Is it safe to remove python24? I did a port depend python24 and get: py24-ctypes depends on python24 py24-ipython depends on python24 py24-markupsafe depends on python24 py24-numpy depends on python24 py24-readline depends on python24 py24-roman depends on python24 py24-setuptools

problem upgrading py27-numpy

2013-11-23 Thread Comer Duncan
://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/py27-numpy :debug:archivefetch Fetching archive failed:: The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found Does anyone have suggestions on what to do to further sort this out? Thanks. Comer *Comer Duncan* *, Bowling Green State University 1970-2005* comer.dun...@gmail.com Get

all variants which use x11?

2013-10-28 Thread Comer Duncan
How do I find the list of currently installed ports which use x11 rather than quartz? I have a bunch of ports which still specify +x11 and I want to remove them, reinstall with +quartz as a uniform option. Thanks. Comer *Comer Duncan* *, Bowling Green State University 1970-2005

another problem

2013-10-27 Thread Comer Duncan
/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_gcc44/gcc44/main.log does not exist. Seems as though something bad is wrong. *Comer Duncan* *, Bowling Green State University 1970-2005* comer.dun...@gmail.com Get a signature like this: http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr1.wisestamp.com%2Fr%2Flanding

problem with removal

2013-10-26 Thread Comer Duncan
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Question about a part of tex-live

2013-10-25 Thread Comer Duncan
I have recently noted that I need to add revtex4.1 to the tex-live distribution I installed from macports. Does anyone know how I can do this? I am afraid that if I just copy the revtex4.1 distribution to /opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex I may well screw up by not making the permissions

ports upgrade outdated problem

2013-10-25 Thread Comer Duncan
attaching the log file. Can someone please help? Thanks very much! *Comer Duncan* *, Bowling Green State University 1970-2005* comer.dun...@gmail.com Get a signature like this: http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr1.wisestamp.com%2Fr%2Flanding%3Fpromo%3D40%26dest%3Dhttp%253A%252F

question about geany

2013-07-27 Thread Comer Duncan
I have geany installed and when I use it, the main window is permanently attached to the upper left corner of the desktop. It is thus a bit strange to use as I often need to resize the main window. Is this a known 'feature'? Thanks for your help. Comer

pygame

2013-04-17 Thread Comer Duncan
I am in the process of trying to begin learning how to use pygame. I have installed py-game 1.9.1 on my Macbookpro running Mountain Lion. Maybe this sounds silly but I am wanting to have access to example pygame files so I can get some idea of the lay of the land, etc. While I could download

question about frequency of updates

2013-02-09 Thread Comer Duncan
Hi, I am wondering what the gurus say is a reasonable update interval for macports? I seem to forget to do it and then have to get through the update process, which sometimes takes quite a while. Any thoughts are appreciated. Comer ___

question about zmq

2012-10-23 Thread Comer Duncan
Yesterday I did sudo port selfupdate and then sudo port upgrade outdated. As usual it took 'forever'. This morning when I checked I see at the end of the output: Error: Unable to upgrade port: Can't install zmq because conflicting ports are installed: zmq22 So, then I did: port search zmq and

Re: question about zmq

2012-10-23 Thread Comer Duncan
Hi, Thanks for the comments. Can you please provide the output of port echo dependents:zmq22 and port -v installed zmq port echo dependents:zmq22 Can't map the URL 'dependents:zmq22' to a port description file (Can't parse url dependents:zmq22). Please verify that the directory

trouble with qt4-mac install

2012-08-04 Thread Comer Duncan
Hi, I have run against an apparent problem in trying to do an upgrade outdated for qt4-mac. Here is what I see homelap-3:~ comerduncan$ sudo port upgrade outdated --- Computing dependencies for qt4-mac --- Building qt4-mac The thing is that this just hangs (after 3 hours I cntrl-C'ed it). I

help with trouble with pango, etc

2012-07-01 Thread Comer Duncan
Hi, I am in the process of installing a set of macport items prior to installing a big software package on my macbook pro running lion. I need the following ports: szip, gcc46, gsl, hdf5-18 +gcc46 -universal So far I can not get either szip or gcc46 to install and the reason seems connected to