On Jan 26, 2009, at 03:39, danstadler wrote:
The install was not actually hanging on extract or configure, I
just thought
it was. Macports was, I'm pretty sure, just assembling it's
information
about all the dependencies, before invoking those steps. Since
gnucash is
my first macports install, the sheer number of dependencies was so
large
that it seemed like the process had hung. In the end, after
installing a
bunch of ports based on the output of ./configure, I just tried "port
install gnucash" once more and let it run, and it finally started
doing the
extract and the configure and everything. Overnight run, and
gnucash was
installed.
I think "port install" should print a message to the user, saying
what it's
doing in such a delay like this. For newbies such as me, it's
disconcerting
to see it just go away and not say anything for so long.
The amount of time port takes before printing anything depends in
large part on the number of dependencies the port has, and on the
speed of your computer. As gnucash has quite a lot of dependencies
[1] it will indeed take quite awhile before it says anything.
If you want a more responsive progress display or if you're just
curious what's being done behind the scenes, then the debug flag -d
is for you.
sudo port -d install gnucash
[1] http://ryandesign.com/tmp/gnucash.png
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