Electric failed to compile

2009-11-26 Thread David Trem
Hello, I was not successful in installing electric port. See error messages below. Anybody could help ? Thanks in advance, David --- Computing dependencies for electric --- Building electric Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command cd

Re: Electric failed to compile

2009-11-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 26, 2009, at 03:28, David Trem wrote: I was not successful in installing electric port. See error messages below. Anybody could help ? We'll need to see more output than that to know what went wrong. Please clean and try again with the debug switch: sudo port clean electric sudo

Re: MySQL installation problem

2009-11-26 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
Em 11/25/09 18:05, Ryan Schmidt escreveu: On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:26, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: I'm trying to install mysql inside a G4/PPC machine, but when i try to follow this instructions: 1) Setup MySQL (for new installs) --- -Configure MySQL:

Re: Why doesn't macports install prebuild packages?

2009-11-26 Thread Frank J. R. Hanstick
Hello, One reason I chose MacPorts over Fink was that there were more ports available. That may or may not be true now because I have not used Fink in a while. Unless Fink had changed, there were still a lot of ports that came with assembly required. Not all ports came as packages. I

sudo port install gksu

2009-11-26 Thread Eralp Karaduman
Hello, I've just typed sudo port install gksu on terminal, and found large amount of dependant packages.. so downloading and installing them. My aim was to use gksu functionality on osx. I was modifying a textmate bundle for HaXe to run swf files on external flash player by keyboard shortcut,

Re: sudo port install gksu

2009-11-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 26, 2009, at 16:53, Eralp Karaduman wrote: I've just typed sudo port install gksu on terminal, and found large amount of dependant packages.. so downloading and installing them. You're right, gksu does have quite a few dependencies. My aim was to use gksu functionality on osx. I was

Re: Why doesn't macports install prebuild packages?

2009-11-26 Thread Scott Haneda
On Nov 26, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: One reason I chose MacPorts over Fink was that there were more ports available. That may or may not be true now because I have not used Fink in a while. I think it has always been the opposite, I could be wrong. But the best

Re: Why doesn't macports install prebuild packages?

2009-11-26 Thread Jasper Frumau
I suspect a lot of other software is not this way, and one universal binary in package format would suffice. I agree and it would be nice to have one pre-made package of each port that could be installed using mac ports without the need of compiling. However, unless I am on a totally