Thanks Mojca, uninstall of ports, clearing out the old macPorts and installing for El Capitain did the trick
thanks, Howard ______________________________ Howard Baumer [email protected] > On May 19, 2017, at 12:21 PM, Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 19 May 2017 at 10:36, Howard Baumer wrote: >> I haven’t run macports for 5+ years and tried updating it. This is what I >> got. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Or should I just uninstall and >> reinstall? > > There are migration instructions: > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration > > But in some cases (depending on your exact circumstances) MacPorts > only guarantees "compatibility" for one year. It may work longer, but > we certainly don't test what happens with upgrades after five years. > > I don't know how to explain your particular problem and didn't try to > look at the sources (it's not even clear to me why MacPorts is being > built from source rather than fetched from the binary archive), but > you probably upgraded a bunch of OSes during those five years. You'll > get least headaches by uninstalling all ports, removing MacPorts and > doing a clean install. > > Mojca
