On 2010-7-28 21:21 , William H. Magill wrote: > I suppose this is a documentation issue ... > > I'm a longtime, but infrequent MacPorts user... > Just (successfully) updated Macports to 1.9 (from 1.8) and "upgraded > outdated" installs (Apache2/MySQL/PHP primaries). > Apparently everything went "normally," no problems noted and everything is > still working. > ... as expected ... Nice clean work guys, thanks. > > This update was in preparation for the installation of Dovecot, Postscript, > Postfix and Procmail. > > Downloaded and installed "zsh-devel" then Dovecot as noted in the wiki > how-to for Dovecot. > http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SetupDovecot
Hm. I wonder why the author didn't consider /usr/bin/zsh usable for this purpose. Or just write bash-compatible scripts... > "mkdir --parents --verbose /opt/local/var/log/dovecot" > > Which, not surprisingly, throws the error... > mkdir: illegal option -- - usage: mkdir [-pv] [-m mode] > directory ... > > So the obvious question here is ... ?--Parents? ?--Verbose? what is the > assumed user environment here? GNU mkdir, apparently. That's certainly an unreasonable assumption on OS X. Replace '--parents --verbose' with '-pv'. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
