On Mar 17, 2007, at 13:33, Randall Wood wrote:
On 17 Mar 2007, at 09:22, Elise van Looij wrote:
After struggling for a few days and getting nowhere, I decided to
make a fresh start. When I got my MacBook I took advantage of a
very handy OSX feature, namely the offer to hook it up via
firewire to my old iBook and have everything automatically copied.
This worked great, within three hours all my user info, documents,
programs, bookmarks etc. had been transferred to the new laptop
and I could practically continue where I left off, except for my
MAMP installation. I don't know whether it was the copying process
itself or my decision to install MacPorts all over again, but
anyway everything I did seemed to result in error messages noone
else was getting.
Fed up with everything I located the /opt folder (it was not
visible in te Finder until I used Spotlight to find it) and threw
the whole shebang in the wastebasked, restarted the machine, made
sure personal webserver was shut down in System Preference, and
reinstalled MacPorts, Apache, MySQL, Subversion and PHP. This time
everything went off without a single error message. I'm not up and
running yet (for some reason the httpd.conf is not yet configured
right), but at least this whole libxml2 nonsense is over.
Your /opt folder probably got copied and then something died
because your processor architecture had changed.
I just migrated from PPC to i386 yesterday. The port command wouldn't
even run for me; complained about architecture mismatches in the
pextlib, I believe. Certainly, everything installed with port was
compiled for PPC, thus would run slowly on Intel, so it would be
beneficial to recompile everything anyway. Was just surprised that
port would not run through Rosetta. (Other installed ports, like svn,
worked fine through Rosetta.) Currently reinstalling everything for
Intel!
Uninstall instructions for MacPorts, FYI, are in the FAQ:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/
FAQ#HowdoIremoveoruninstallMacPorts
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