Randall Wood wrote: > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> < insert old unix geek whining about macos and unsearchable mailman >> mailing list archives > >> >> trying to install rdiff-backup. it, and py-xattr want to install python >> 2.4 port when there is a perfectly good python 2.5 native in leopard. i >> can not find the equivalent of freebsd's /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to >> whack the port's build parms. and doc reading does not give me a lot of >> clue. > > I can speak to why we don't use the system python, but not to rdiff-backup: > > The system python would have to be modified to see the > MacPorts-installed python packages or MacPorts would have to stick > those packages outside of its managed directory. MacPorts uses a > single managed directory[1] to avoid collisions with other software > that would break the ability to manage the ports. To avoid modifying > the system python, MacPorts installs its own python as well. > > [1] /opt/local by default. There are some exceptions > /Applications/MacPorts so that apps just work and are visible in the > Applications directory and a couple of others related to bootstrapping > in MacPorts to begin with.
as i sit here watching a whole parallel universe of gnu utils, python, ... being built and installed, i am not comfortable. i know that i will now have to maintain this overbuilt universe as time passes. and then i get the appended and wonder how i scrape all this stuff i do not need out. sqlite? someone's kidding, right? sigh. randy --- ---> Fetching sqlite3 ---> Attempting to fetch sqlite-3.5.7.tar.gz from http://www.sqlite.org/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for sqlite3 ---> Extracting sqlite3 ---> Configuring sqlite3 ---> Building sqlite3 with target all Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_databases_sqlite3/work/sqlite-3.5.7" && gnumake all " returned error 2 Command output: sed -e s/--VERS--/3.5.7/ ./src/sqlite.h.in | \ sed -e s/--VERSION-NUMBER--/3005007/ >sqlite3.h /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -O2 -o mkkeywordhash ./tool/mkkeywordhash.c ./mkkeywordhash >keywordhash.h /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -O2 -o lemon ./tool/lemon.c cp ./tool/lempar.c . cp ./src/parse.y . ./lemon parse.y mv parse.h parse.h.temp f ./addopcodes.awk parse.h.temp >parse.h /bin/sh: f: command not found gnumake: [parse.c] Error 127 (ignored) cat parse.h ./src/vdbe.c | -f ./mkopcodeh.awk >opcodes.h /bin/sh: -f: command not found cat: stdout: Broken pipe gnumake: *** [opcodes.h] Error 127 Error: The following dependencies failed to build: subversion apr-util sqlite3 neon Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. randy _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
