The following text was originally written as a private message to Ryan Schmidt, but he said it might be interesting for the rest of the MacPorts users community as well. So here it comes (with only minor modifications):
I had a few problems installing "digikam-devel", but it is working now! First there was a problem activating "qt4-mac", but I did not record the exact output. Just repeating the "port install digikam-devel" did the job. So never mind that. Second I encountered a checksum error, which is a known issue (albeit supposed to be fixed, but maybe more could be done?): http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21144 Finally I had a problem with my case-sensitive file-system - again! Because of my own bug report the Portfile for kdegraphics4-4.2.4 was modified five months back: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20313 Now with kdegraphics4-4.3.4 I have the reverse problem: the Portfile says "QTCrypto", but the directory on my hard disk is called "QtCrypto". Ah, I see, there has been a change to qca... so let's get kdegraphics4 changed too: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22941 By the way: I "patched" my MacPorts to use gcc-4.2 on Leopard, the way Ryan Schmidt advised against about 1.5 years ago: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-June/005423.html But I thought by now ports should be tested mainly with gcc-4.2 anyway, and it seems to work. The system I used to compile everything was a G4 PowerBook with a 1 GHz CPU and 1 GByte RAM. I started with a fresh install of MacPorts about two weeks ago. Total compile time was probably three of four days. It took from Sunday to Friday (with five interruptions of different lengths) from "port install digikam-devel" till I could actually start DigiKam - but I did not have to spend a lot of time with the system to get this far, about two hours maybe. I currently just can't install gimp via MacPorts due to problems with the "atlas" port, which gimp seems to depend upon. Other PPC users have simillar issues, though: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/22378 With the "nouveau" Linux graphics driver for NVidia cards improving I might switch back to Linux as my main operating system some time next year, but for the months to come I'll continue being a MacPorts user. Regards, Vlado _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
