Re: Ntp -- getting it to work

2014-12-06 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
So an update: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: From my /etc/rc.local: launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pacemaker.plist /usr/libexec/pacemaker -d /var/db.local/pacemaker.drift -a 8 My hardware clock, when pacemaker is not running,

Question on wget renaming files?

2013-03-02 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I'm trying to download a file with wget. It is less than what I expect. keybounceMBP:147 michael$ wget http://www.chickenbones.craftsaddle.org/Files/goto.php?file=CodeChickenCorea=1; --2013-03-02 20:11:15-- http://www.chickenbones.craftsaddle.org/Files/goto.php?file=CodeChickenCorea=1 Resolving

Port request: Hex / MoHex / Benzene / HexGui

2012-12-31 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
As detailed over there: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/85646/modified-hex-gui-for-linux Basically, there's a recipe for taking the hex game, and UI, and porting it to modern linux systems with updates to the libraries since the code base had been last updated. -- Political and economic blog

Re: Please add Google Dart to MacPorts.

2012-12-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Kotlin, Ceylon, Xtend, ... Scala, Go, Groovy, Clojure ... ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Downgrading to 10.6.8 from 10.7.5 -- Now what?

2012-11-03 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I have downgraded my system from 10.7.5 to 10.6.8. Now, what do I need to do to make Macports happy? -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com This message may have been spell checked by a laptop kitten.

Re: Downgrading to 10.6.8 from 10.7.5 -- Now what?

2012-11-03 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Lawrence Velázquez larry.velazq...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 3, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I have downgraded my system from 10.7.5 to 10.6.8. Now, what do I need to do to make Macports happy? A bit

Re: Newb

2012-10-28 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
So yeah virtualization is an option, with very limited performance since the VM 3D acceleration passthrough isn't so great. FWIW, both VMware and Parallels claim to have made great advances in their Windows 3D acceleration support. Like bringing honey from freezer to room temperature? I

Avidemux -- What is happening

2012-08-05 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
What is the status of Avidemux? There are a number of people complaining that it won't build; I did not add to that. There is a ticket calling for it to be updated, but it is not. There is a binary for an older version available from download at http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html,

Re: Which version of Wine, or am I on the wrong track?

2012-04-19 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I am pretty sure there are ways in MacOS itself to make and edit a screen recording; you most probably do not need to bring the whole wine monster to your system just to do that. There are. But: 1. QuickTime Player cannot record system audio. It only records sound input. So I can either use

Re: Which version of Wine, or am I on the wrong track?

2012-04-17 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Apr 15, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: I am not sure which version of Wine to install from Macports (there are three), or if this is even the right approach for what I want to do. The goal: Edit a movie (screen recording), from the view that 80-90% of what I

Which version of Wine, or am I on the wrong track?

2012-04-15 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I am not sure which version of Wine to install from Macports (there are three), or if this is even the right approach for what I want to do. The goal: Edit a movie (screen recording), from the view that 80-90% of what I recorded will be tossed. iMovie is a failure (as far as I can tell) as

Re: MacPorts on Linux

2011-12-28 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Back to the original question, we might also ask: Why was MacPorts created in 2002, if Fink already existed in 2000? I do not know. Perhaps the Apple engineers didn't like something about the architecture or culture of Fink and thought they could make something better. As I understand it,

Triple universal?

2011-12-28 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Is there any way to make a PPC, i386, x86_64 universal for a 10.5.8 target? -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com This message may have been spell checked by a laptop kitten. ___

Re: gmail phishing warnings

2011-12-25 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I notice this phishing warning on every message from someone on a gmail.com address, and only on messages from someone on a gmail.com address. I've regarded it as Google's being careful -- this is a message originating from a non-google server, that claims to be from a google user, but might

Re: Writing a portfile

2011-07-24 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Learn to write a portfile On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht b...@pixilla.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Unfortunately nobody has made a port for it yet, so for now you have to get it from the repository: Alright, where

Re: What is the proper way to maintain a local port file?

2011-06-27 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
What is the proper way to maintain a local port? 2. Modifying an existing port. 2) keeping local patches (2) can be a bit of a pain in the ass, but has the advantage that you'll discover when and if the official port breaks your patch. I've got procedures and scripts to handle both cases

Re: MacPorts 2.0.0-beta1 now available for testing

2011-06-27 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
From the changelog: 83 - Port images are now stored as archives. Archive mode is now effectively 84always on. Among other benefits, this fixes some bugs with the handling 85of hard links installed by ports (e.g. #13601). 86 87Direct mode is no

Re: Qemu, SDL: What's the proper way to report a missing dependency?

2011-06-27 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Ok, I'd like some advice here. Qemu has some cocoa support built in. But it warns that it is not complete, and see the mailing list archives for details. Qemu, using core audio drivers, triggers a kernel driver problem on PPC 10.5.8, at least on my iBook. (Seriously, I've had to turn my machine

Using Macports as non-root?

2011-06-27 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Is there a good way to use macports as a non-root user for everything except the install? Or, is there a way to limit the installation functions to a single setuid program? ... something about routinely going root to compile or edit, etc, really makes me worried about typeos. -- Political and

What is the proper way to maintain a local port file?

2011-06-26 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
What is the proper way to maintain a local port? There are two cases that I'm looking at: 1. Creating a new port for a program that does not currently have a port. 2. Modifying an existing port. For 2, the specific case I'm looking at is qemu -- I only need the 386 emulator, and do not need to

Qemu, SDL: What's the proper way to report a missing dependency?

2011-06-26 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
QEMU wants SDL, but libsdl is not listed in the portfile as a dependecy. What is the proper way to report these? -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com This message may have been spell checked by a laptop kitten.

Re: fetching sources from sourceforge takes very long time

2011-05-11 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I do not know why you see low ping times to a server but then slow transfer speeds from it. That would be a question for your network administrator. Just as a quickie, your ISP might throttle your bandwidth as a function of time. You might actually have a very large connection pipe -- maybe you

Re: Xcode 4

2011-03-11 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I am also in the PPC is dead, long live the PPC! crowd. Frankly, I don't need to upgrade past my G4. 1 point 21, err, 42 jigahurts of power. No, seriously, people, stop, take a deep breath, and stop chasing the clock-core count. What do you have on a typical system choice? i386 -- which

Re: Questions about code signing

2011-01-31 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Here's a quick question on task_for_pid() (it seems to be at the heart of this): What is the security hole that this system setup is trying to fix? Apparently, it used to be that if you were the same ID, you could find the mach task for a process; now it's highly restricted. Why? I can't find

Re: Questions about code signing

2011-01-30 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I have no idea how code signing works. You must have read the docs.  It was a simple idea until I did that :\ ouch. My Brain ... codesign. csreq. certtool. systemkeychain. security. taskgated. Is there a simple introduction to security on Mac Os that actually deals with this? I found the How

Denyhosts cannot purge

2011-01-11 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Denyhosts cannot purge entries for me. 2011-01-11 20:11:10,879 - denyfileutil: INFO purging entries older than: Tue Jan 11 16:11:10 2011 2011-01-11 20:11:11,188 - root: ERRORinvalid literal for int() with base 10: 'Sat Jun 5 20' Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: Problems w/ MacFUSE SSHFS

2010-10-21 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Never having used the 64 bit world (still a PPC 10.5.8 person), does the 32 bit kernel let a file go bigger than 4GiB? Do writes of big data stay as atomic as writes of small data? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Re: Error: port activate failed: Registry error: No port of e installed.

2010-10-15 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
2. I could use Mac's Time Machine backup to restore my system to the way it was the day before I installed Macports. IIRC Time Machine does not work very well with MacPorts as it is unable to backup hardlinks. Wha?? I have hard links all over the place; Time Machine doesn't like them? Need

Re: Messed up Perl

2010-10-07 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
How is having a *_select problem going to be easier for people than using the full path to the binary they want or having the user modify their $PATH to do what they want? Because the select is done by macports when installed; the user just runs the program, and now gets the macports

Re: Will binaries built in 10.6 still run in 10.5?

2010-10-04 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Distributing binaries built via MacPorts tends to be a bad idea:  not only do you need to make sure to distribute the files from any dependencies as well as your binary, but the result will likely interfere with an installed MacPorts or Fink on the installer's machine. What is a good way to

Re: Messed up Perl

2010-10-04 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
As to taking over, if you don't want to use MacPorts then why did you install it in the first place?  It's entirely reasonable to assume that someone who has installed MacPorts wants MacPorts programs to be available in their $PATH.  If you want to change *where* it is in your $PATH, then

Re: Messed up Perl

2010-10-04 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
... your issue is that MacPorts didn't do what you want automatically. Historically, we have done three different things with PATH: 1. Nothing (my preferred solution)  - This results in large numbers of I installed this with MacPorts and I can't use it emails to the mailing list 2. Append

Re: Messed up Perl

2010-10-04 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Wanting to use MacPorts does NOT mean I want to use it for EVERYTHING.   There's no need to user the MacPorts Perl, Python, or anything else that may already be installed on my iMac and is working fine.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's one view, which is shared by some other

Re: Compiling Java 6 on 10.5.8

2010-09-28 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
of Michael_google gmail_Gersten [keybou...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 September 2010 16:38 To: MacPorts Users Subject: Compiling Java 6 on 10.5.8 Is it possible to compile Java 6 on 10.5.8? I'm not concerned about the graphic front-end support (from what I understand, that has to come from Apple because

Compiling Java 6 on 10.5.8

2010-09-27 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Is it possible to compile Java 6 on 10.5.8? I'm not concerned about the graphic front-end support (from what I understand, that has to come from Apple because they modify it for their system). I'm looking at wanting to compile server-side / back-end java code. How much of Java has been

Re: Ports applications are not shown to Mac Application menu

2010-08-20 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I've done sudo port install VLC and everything went fine, including its icon that was placed to Mac application menu.  The same happened with the game neverball. On the other hand, both claws-mail and bzflag were not placed to Mac Application menu.  I can only run both applications from

Re: Disk I/O error and hfsdebug (was: Re: sqlite error:)

2010-07-12 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
, and that's a Mac Os X issue, I thought it was appropriate for this list. On 7/10/10, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Second: How can I

Fwd: Disk I/O error and hfsdebug (was: Re: sqlite error:)

2010-07-12 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
, and that's a Mac Os X issue, I thought it was appropriate for this list. On 7/10/10, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Second: How can I

Disk I/O error and hfsdebug (was: Re: sqlite error:)

2010-07-10 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Second: How can I force a test read or write of those sectors? (After finding out a bad sector LBA) http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html

Re: gross error

2010-07-09 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
As far as I know, every non retail installer disc that Apple ships has Apple Hardware Test on it.  A small hidden partition, or perhaps it is a hook into the firmware, I'm not sure.    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509 Dang, that's nice to know. A little looking around shows that there's

Re: sqlite error: disk I/O error

2010-07-09 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I've had good luck with smartmontools (available from MacPorts ;-) ). oh, that's nice. Now, Device: IOService:/MacRISC2PE/p...@f400/AppleMacRiscPCI/at...@d/AppleKauaiATA/atadevice...@0/AppleATADiskDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors Does this mean that my

Re: sqlite error: disk I/O error

2010-07-09 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
$which smartmontools $man smartmontools No manual entry for smartmontools What did I do wrong? Kleiman-ibook:Windows TM michael$ port info smartmontools smartmontools @5.39.1 (sysutils) Variants: universal Description: Two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to

Re: sqlite error: disk I/O error

2010-07-09 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Oh, this isn't nice. smartctl -x disk0 ... Error 5 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 9454 hours (393 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- --

Smartmontools and disk I/O error

2010-07-09 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
(renamed subject because the subject has changed) Kleiman-ibook:Windows TM michael$ smartctl -c disk0 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

Re: gross error

2010-07-09 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
If you literally never got anything back, something went wrong.  At the least, you should get No results found. Please try another search. I never got another page, nor any change to that page with any response. It did not say no results found. ___

Re: gross error

2010-07-09 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
http://www.info.apple.com/support/aht.html You can also get it from the OEM that supplies it to Apple, but I'll need to go home and look up that URL if you need it (I used it to get the CD image for my 11 G4 iBook). That's nice. Thanks. ... iBook tester: Check. Mac mini tester: Nope. Looks

Re: Size of registry? (And sqlite questions)

2010-07-06 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
This extension is build as part of MacPorts base and can be found in src/cregistry/macports.sqlext after building. Note that this file is not being installed, so you really need to build from source. Ouch. Should this file be installed? And if not, why not? I think it should.

Re: Eliminating X dependency from python

2010-07-06 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
So, two questions: 1. Why is the default for a scripting language to bring in the entire gui system? Why isn't that a variant? http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#pydeps That hardly answers it, and yet does. Alright, then this question: Why isn't the gui an optional package? Equally, does

Re: Eliminating X dependency from python

2010-07-06 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
1. Why is the default for a scripting language to bring in the entire gui system? Why isn't that a variant? http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#pydeps That hardly answers it, and yet does. Alright, then this question: Why isn't the gui an optional package? It is; as others have

and not installed?

2010-07-03 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
This simple command takes a long time port info depof:python26 and not installed Is and not installed lacking any optimization, i.e, does it first make a list that satisfies depof:python26, and then check only that list for not installed, or does it make the entire list of all non-installed

Re: Size of registry? (And sqlite questions)

2010-07-02 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Nor did I see any .compact command in sqlite3. I am not sure exactly what your other comments are about, I have not yet had a chance to learn about the new features of MacPorts, so I will leave it to just the above comment... I believe, if memory servers me correctly from trying to shrink

Re: Size of registry? (And sqlite questions)

2010-07-02 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Ok, I'm trying to shrink the macports sql database. I made a copy of the db, and then tried this: Kleiman-ibook:tmp michael$ sqlite3 foo.db .dump redo.sql Kleiman-ibook:tmp michael$ touch new.db Kleiman-ibook:tmp michael$ sqlite3 new.db redo.sql Error: near line 6: no such collation sequence:

Eliminating X dependency from python

2010-07-01 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I have denyhosts installed. That's a nice python package. It wants python (obviously). But installing denyhosts installs python default, which installs tk by default, which in turn brings in (just about) the entire X package. So, two questions: 1. Why is the default for a scripting language to

Issue with requested and sql...

2010-07-01 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
So after removing python, I see this: Kleiman-ibook:Windows TM michael$ port echo leaves bzip2 @1.0.5_3+darwin+universal db46 @4.6.21_6+universal gdbm @1.8.3_2+universal sqlite3

Re: Eliminating X dependency from python

2010-07-01 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
3. For python, how do I specify Give me command line scripting, no gui? The +no_tkinter variant should work. Scott But I had that. Kleiman-ibook:Windows TM michael$ port echo leaves python26 @2.6.5_1+darwin+no_tkinter+universal That was what I had at one point, and

Size of registry? (And sqlite questions)

2010-07-01 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
So I've got almost all of my ports cleaned out. Kleiman-ibook:registry michael$ ls total 25568 0 portfiles/25568 registry.db Kleiman-ibook:registry michael$ port installed The following ports are currently installed: ncurses @5.7_0+universal (active) ncursesw @5.7_0+universal

Setrequested does not give errors for flat files

2010-06-30 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
If you still have a flat file, then stbmac:macports Michael$ port setrequested perl5 does not return an error. stbmac:macports Michael$ port echo leaves gettext@0.17_4 gettext@0.17_4+universal gettext@0.18_0+universal perl5

Re: SDL library header issue

2010-06-30 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Manually commenting out that hard-coded BYTEORDER line, so that the system determines it at compile time? That seems to be a workaround. So I have a simple question. I'm trying to compile a program that uses SDL. With this change to BYTEORDER, the program compiles, but the display is messed up.

Re: SDL library header issue

2010-06-30 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
So I just realized that I want to delete that BYTEORDER line while compiling SDL. How do I tell MacPorts to let me edit the code between the configuration step and the compilation step? You can run the phases of the install process independently.  Each phase you run will automatically run

Re: Leaves, requested, and ...

2010-06-30 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I think something's wrong here. I've got no leaves, 3 requested, and far too many installed stuff. Are you sure, I mean just installing gimp2 will give you 194 ports due to the dependencies.  You could eliminate the duplicate packages in your output by using port echo active... Scott I

Re: Problems running Gimp with +quartz +no_x11

2010-06-27 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Axis Sivitz aosiv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having trouble getting Gimp to run directly under quartz. Here are some of the error messages I get when starting gimp: - Dynamic session lookup supported

Re: Problems running Gimp with +quartz +no_x11

2010-06-27 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Kleiman-ibook:~ michael$ launchctl list ... eeep! It's not running on my system either. Now, how did this happen? : dict keyLabel/key stringorg.freedesktop.dbus-session/string keyServiceIPC/key true/ !-- bug in 10.4's launchd - on-demand loading does

Re: A word on Trac ticket submissions...

2010-06-22 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I don't think I have ever entered the maintainer of a port. Up until now, I wasn't aware that I needed to. Saying RTFM for everything that you do isn't the answer. People expect that Z will work; that's why we have the horrible disasters that we have in society. Retraining people is hard.

Space used in /opt/local/var/macports

2010-06-19 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
How much of /opt/local/var/macports can be cleaned up? Kleiman-ibook:macports michael$ du -s * 29716 build 497644 distfiles 0 logs 0 packages 12 port-help.tcl 4540receipts 0 registry 2241476 software 92544 sources That's over 2 gig in software, and half a gig in

Re: Port list leaves does not work

2010-06-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I just upgraded to the new port. I cannot get the leaves to work correctly. Maybe you need to convert your registry to sqlite format as described here: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-announce/2010-June/08.html I didn't realize that was needed for the leaves. It

Re: MacPorts 1.9.0 has been released

2010-06-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Alright, a question on leaves. Here's mine: apr-util @1.3.9 devel/apr-util autoconf @2.65 devel/autoconf automake @1.11.1 devel/automake boost-jam @3.1.17 devel/boost-jam

Comparing installed versus new versions of ports

2010-06-17 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I'd like to know a good way to compare what's installed and out-of-date with what's available. If I say port installed outdated, I get a list of what's installed, that's out of date, with the installed version. But it doesn't show me the new version information. Is there a way to get this in

Re: Port list leaves does not work

2010-06-17 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Scott Webster sewebs...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I just upgraded to the new port. I cannot get the leaves to work correctly. Maybe you need to convert your registry to sqlite

Re: SDL library header issue

2010-05-22 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Manually commenting out that hard-coded BYTEORDER line, so that the system determines it at compile time? That seems to be a workaround. Does that happen? I would have expected we'd need to define SDL_BYTEORDER correctly in the config file. Ya think? Look at this: SDL_endian.h: ... /**

Problem on cyrus-sasl2 +universal

2010-05-22 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
As subversion has a bunch of dependents, including some that I need +universal, I tried to install it as +universal. It fails on Cyrus-sasl2. This attempts to generate a program to produce a header file. --- Building cyrus-sasl2 for architecture ppc --- Building cyrus-sasl2 for architecture

Re: Problem on cyrus-sasl2 +universal

2010-05-22 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
A lot of stuff just doesn't cross compile properly. Why do you need to build universal anyway? Because I'm trying to produce universal .dmg's for some programs; currently, Ufo-AI. I seem to be the only one interested that has a PPC hosted development environment. Some of the devs have 10.5.8

Proper way to clean up dependencies?

2010-05-21 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I'd like to know what the proper, intended way to clean up dependencies is. Specifically, I started to install the new subversion. When I realized that it had other dependencies, I hit ctrl-C, checked them out, saw some important ones, and tried to reinstall as +universal. (I don't need svn as

SDL library header issue

2010-05-21 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I'm trying to compile a PPC port of Ufo AI for the 2.3 release. A long time ago (about 8 months), I had compiled and posted several versions. (If interested: 23530, 23783, 24430, 24953, and 26262). In trying to test the current version, it failed, with a horrible byteswap error. So, the question

How do I recompile one port?

2010-05-21 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Attempting to fix an issue with an SDL header, and a program that used it, resulted in this message from the dynamic linker: dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.8.dylib Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.0.dylib Reason: image not found Now, that's not inherently

Re: Dbus Launchd errors after hard reboot

2010-05-19 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Jasper Frumau jasperfru...@gmail.com wrote: After a hard reboot I have a dbus issue similar to http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15081 In my logs this is shown many times over: 5/19/10 8:46:06 AM org.freedesktop.dbus-system[672] Failed to start message bus: The

Where is GPG?

2010-04-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I found lots of stuff for working with GPG, but I can't find gpg itself. Where should I be looking? Kleiman-ibook:~ michael$ port search gpg gpg-agent @2.0.13 (security, mail) GPG key agent GPGAppKit @A1 (aqua, devel, security) A framework that provides GPG-type panels gpgme @1.2.0

Re: how long does it take to build gcc45?

2010-04-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On my 2.5 GB 32-bit macbook it's been running 'stock on building gcc45' for half an hour. How long more should I normally wait? Wait a couple hours at least. Each version of gcc seems to be bigger than the last. 4.3 took over 24 hours on my 1.42 G4. So go and get a cup of coffee or 2 (or

Apple Gcc vs normal Gcc?

2010-04-17 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Joshua Root j...@macports.org wrote: On 2010-4-6 06:54 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: Apple's patches allow gcc to accept multiple simultaneous arch flags, e.g. gcc -arch i386 -arch ix86_64 to generate both at the same time. Standard gcc does not have this ability;

Re: Upgrade dependents to universal?

2010-04-15 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
What I want to know is why sudo port upgrade --enforce-variants works, but sudo port install --enforce-variants does not. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Compiling gimp

2010-04-15 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: I should point out that installing gimp with MacPorts is an enormous endeavor, with almost 200 dependencies. This will take a lot of time to build, and I don't know if every one of these ports is in working order

gimp2 +no_x11 needing +quartz

2010-04-13 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Lenore Horner lenorehor...@sbcglobal.net wrote: http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ This is the X11 version only however.  If you want an X11-free version, you will need to use MacPorts and variants. gimp2 @2.6.8_0+darwin_9+no_x11+quartz (active) That +quartz

Writing a portfile

2010-04-06 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: Unfortunately nobody has made a port for it yet, so for now you have to get it from the repository: Alright, where is the Howto: for dummies document on how to write a port for someone that has never written a port

Re: Writing a portfile

2010-04-06 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Unfortunately nobody has made a port for it yet, so for now you have to get it from the repository: Alright, where is the Howto: for dummies document on how to write a port for someone that has never written a port before? It's probably easiest to find a simple port whose source files are

3-way universal support?

2010-03-20 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Will macports ever support a three-way universal, for the following systems: 1. PPC/10.5.8 2. i386/10.5.8 3. x64/10.6.2 Obviously, 10.5.8 systems cannot compile for case #3, but a 10.6.2 system should (in theory) be able to compile for all three cases. Any likelihood that macports will support

Re: Port problem: GitX

2010-03-17 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Is there a reason not to use git-core? That's what I would suggest to do. Could you modify that port to have a +universal variant? That would be a great addition to the portfile. The first thing I checked was the dependencies of the gui; it depends on git-core, so installing the GitX gui

Re: Port problem: GitX

2010-03-17 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
MacPorts provides automatic universal build support for most ports that use a standard configure script. git-core does not use a standard configure script (the portfile says use_configure no), so the built-in automatic universal support is disabled for git-core. If you want a universal

port install: Can it keep going after a failure?

2010-03-17 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Does MacPorts have the equivalent of make -k, to install, and keep on going when one dependency fails? -- Economic and political blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com ___ macports-users mailing list

Re: port install: Can it keep going after a failure?

2010-03-17 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Does MacPorts have the equivalent of make -k, to install, and keep on going when one dependency fails? $ man port ...     -p       Despite any errors encountered, proceed to process multiple ports and commands. That should handle it. I thought -p meant: If I have three commands on the

Re: Port problem: GitX

2010-03-15 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Kleiman-ibook:~ michael$ sudo port install -d GitX +universal | tee /tmp/curl-fail.txt Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get complete output. Thankfully, someone mentioned that the -d goes before the install, not after. I see you're building

Re: Port problem: GitX

2010-03-15 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Kleiman-ibook:~ michael$ sudo port install -d GitX +universal | tee /tmp/curl-fail.txt Otherwise, there's not a lot of info to go on. Stupid, stupid me. Did anyone else notice that I did not say 21 in there? All the error messages went to my screen, but NOT to tee and the log file. Yea,

Re: Port problem: GitX

2010-03-15 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Once you've rerun with the debug switch, file this as a ticket in the issue tracker. Done; #24059 ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

Port problem: GitX

2010-03-14 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Kleiman-ibook:~ michael$ sudo port install -d GitX +universal | tee /tmp/curl-fail.txt Failed: checking for /dev/urandom... configure: error: cannot check for file existence when cross compiling Error: The following dependencies failed to build: git-core curl p5-error rsync popt The full error

Removing a port and dependencies?

2009-09-14 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Is there an easy way to remove a port and all of its dependencies that are not being used by something else? I can use port-rdeps to find all dependencies, and can force them all to be removed. That's no longer a problem. If I try to remove only the not-in-use stuff? Well, then order becomes

Re: system hosed?

2009-09-12 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht b...@pixilla.com wrote: Pink Panther Isn't that just a flaw inside a large diamond? Wouldn't calling your OS Pink Panther be saying that it is flawed, like all OS's of that size? Why not call it Leaping Panther? (*) Michael (*): In the

Re: system hosed?

2009-09-09 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Regarding the comment of, Unluckily I cant switch to Leopard - having a G4. Isn't Leopard 10.5.x? If so, that runs nicely on G4's. It's snow leopard that is 10.6. (Why does Apple use confusing names instead of simple numbers, and what do they do after Ocelot? Is there another big cat for 10.8,

Re: Help needed uninstalling / reinstalling ports

2009-09-06 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
That's not what I wanted. That's still not uninstalling what I wanted, and it uninstalled a bunch more that I don't know if I wanted removed or not. I believe it did what you asked: it tried to uninstall various ports you requested, could not because it did not know which of multiple

Re: Open Al: No universal variant in the port tree

2009-09-05 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
If you look into this, you might also want to update the version. The request to update to version 1.1 was filed almost two years ago: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13587 Perhaps an even newer version is available by now. sigh. OpenAl has been part of the OsX distribution since 10.4.

Help needed uninstalling / reinstalling ports

2009-09-05 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I'm running into lots of issues trying to get gtk2 to install; it keeps generating an invalid cache. So, I figured I'd uninstall, and re-install, all of the packages that it uses -- to make sure that everything is up to date, and +universal. But I'm stuck on a few of them: Kleiman-ibook:trunk

Re: Help needed uninstalling / reinstalling ports

2009-09-05 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mark Hattamm...@dxradio.demon.co.uk wrote: sudo port uninstall inactive would lose the all the inactive installations, leaving just the (active) ones. What version of Macports are you using? Latest, 1.8 ___

Re: Help needed uninstalling / reinstalling ports

2009-09-05 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Even better-- repeating the same command succeeds the second time. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

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