Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread joseph davison
One thing that might be useful is sudo install manopen That will install a tool that lets you read man[ual] pages easily for the unix-y tools installed on your system. Many programs (probably including gimp -- I haven't tried it) that come from the unix world are / were documented using man

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-14 Thread joseph davison
head at one time -- especially after 40 years of command line use, where the available local memory space has begun to decline, and one needs to make more use of auxiliary memory. -- joe j...@ieee.org On Jun 14, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Scott Haneda wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 6:44 AM, joseph

searching the archives

2010-04-10 Thread joseph davison
Is there any way to search the mailing list archives (other than the obvious, not-quite-manual)? If wishes were granted, there'd be a search box on the archive index page or the list-info page... I mean, multi file grep isn't all that new a technology, eh? joe

ddd aqua or x11?

2010-04-10 Thread joseph davison
I see there's a ddd port. port info doesn't say, but I presume it's X11 and not Aqua? joe ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

ruby/tk failing on snowleopard

2009-12-04 Thread joseph davison
I've installed ruby+mactk (and thread-support or whatever is standard there) as well as tcl and tk from macports and it's set up as my primary ruby (i.e. first on my PATH). Ruby appears to be working fine (my unit tests on previous projects all pass). However, when I attempt to run ruby/tk

Ruby 1.9 help bug

2009-02-09 Thread joseph davison
Hi, I installed ruby19 and am learning to use it. There's a bug/problem; Here's an irb1.9 session that shows it: jason(s002)[2005]% irb1.9 irb(main):001:0 help :help NameError: undefined method `execute' for module `IRB::ExtendCommand::Help' from (eval):4:in `instance_method'

Re: install manopen fails on 10.5.5

2008-12-11 Thread joseph davison
what the problem is -- perhaps the maintainer can Do The Right Thing? That should probably be a bug report, eh? joe On Dec 9, 2008, at 6:19 PM, joseph davison wrote: Oh I See... NSSimpleHorizontalTypeSetter was deprecated in 10.4 -- I suppose it's gone in 10.5, eh?Joy -- I'll see

Re: install manopen fails on 10.5.5

2008-12-09 Thread joseph davison
Oh I See... NSSimpleHorizontalTypeSetter was deprecated in 10.4 -- I suppose it's gone in 10.5, eh?Joy -- I'll see if I can find an example or replacing it, but if the maintainer already knows how... joe On Dec 8, 2008, at 6:19 PM, joseph davison wrote: Just installed macports

install manopen fails on 10.5.5

2008-12-08 Thread joseph davison
Just installed macports on a new leopard installation on my macbook pro. Tried to install manopen and it blows up with: ManDocument.m: In function '-[ManDocument windowControllerDidLoadNib:]': ManDocument.m:328: error: 'NSSimpleHorizontalTypesetter' undeclared (first use in this function)

nco fails to build install on 10.5.5

2008-12-08 Thread joseph davison
new Leopard installation on a macbook pro. installed netcdf, then tried to install nco hours later, after installing a new gcc and a new perl, and ... it finally tried to do nco. Here's the nco build output: --- Fetching nco --- nco-3.9.5.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/

Hurrah for emacs-app

2008-12-06 Thread joseph davison
Just moved from Tiger to Leopard on my MacBookPro. Did an erase and install and then tried moving some things back from my backup. I must have missed something with my emacs-app, because it would start disappear. I think I set it up to share the lisp files with another version but