Re: XFCE

2016-01-10 Thread Anders F Björklund
James Linder wrote: >> "In general, application bugs should be reported to the developers of the >> app (?upstream?), not MacPorts." >> But I think it's safe to say that no-one* is running Xfce on Darwin/XQuartz, >> so this is Terra Incognita... >> >> Anyway, the bug tracker is:

Re: XFCE

2016-01-09 Thread Anders F Björklund
Pierre Henri CHAUDOUARD wrote: > What is the role of xfce4-session ? Because other components (xfwm4, panel, > desktop) seem to work ... > >>> /opt/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: line 113: 13661 Segmentation fault: 11 >>> xfce4-session >>> >> This segfault needs to be debugged by someone.

Re: XFCE

2016-01-06 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> Now the installation fails at xfconf: >>> :info:configure checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser >>> perl module is required for intltool >> >> Hmm, that part should probably be removed (as per >> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30937) >> >>

Re: XFCE

2016-01-06 Thread Anders F Björklund
Pierre Henri CHAUDOUARD: > Ok, now I have installed xfce (not without pain ...). But it fails to launch > ... > > /opt/local/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0 Weird that this doesn't seem to be using launchd, but whatever. Maybe it changed ? >

Re: XFCE

2016-01-06 Thread Anders F Björklund
6 jan 2016 kl. 21.03 skrev Pierre Henri CHAUDOUARD: > Now the installation fails at xfconf: > :info:configure checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser > perl module is required for intltool Hmm, that part should probably be removed (as per

Re: XFCE

2016-01-05 Thread Anders F Björklund
4 jan 2016 kl. 22.21 skrev Pierre Henri CHAUDOUARD: > >> Anyway, now the ports *have* been updated to the latest version Xfce 4.12 so >> "should" work. >> This includes the desktop, with Thunar and Terminal. See screenshot from >> XQuartz on Mavericks: >> > Thank you for the upgrade ! I was

Re: XFCE, Gnome

2016-01-03 Thread Anders F Björklund
3 jan 2016 kl. 01.35 skrev David Evans: > On 1/2/16 6:25 AM, Pierre Henri CHAUDOUARD wrote: >> OS X 10.11.2, Xcode 7.2. >> >> Has anyone managed to install xfce ? For me, the installation fails at the >> package xfconf ... The old ports for Xfce 4.6 and the (unreleased) Xfce 4.8 hadn't been

Re: What is the preferred or recommended gcc version?

2009-05-15 Thread Anders F Björklund
Darren Weber: Is there a general consensus, for the majority of ports without any specific build dependency, on which version of gcc is preferred or recommended for MacPorts? I'd go with /usr/bin/gcc, as a generic recommendation. (whether using MacPorts or just general on Mac OS X...) It

Re: python25

2009-04-27 Thread Anders F Björklund
Rainer Müller wrote: For one thing, if you are running on Mac OS X you are not running on pure darwin; ah ? i thought that pure darwin was the UNIX layer under the GUI, not only the OS for those who don't have GUI at all No, puredarwin is http://puredarwin.org. The +puredarwin variant

Re: GLew for MAC

2009-04-06 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Note that libGLEW.a is a static library. I'm not aware of how to determine what architectures a static library is built for. Usually you would be using a dynamic library, like libGLEW.dylib, for which the file command should verify its architectures. lipo -info It's

Re: Suggested updates to MAMP pages

2009-04-03 Thread Anders F Björklund
Scott Haneda wrote: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP The section where the docs state: In /opt/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf, add the following lines to the end of the file: # # Include user configurations # Include /private/etc/httpd/users/ *.conf The include path

Re: Bizarre error when building xgalaga!

2009-04-02 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: error copying /opt/ local/share/libtool/config.guess: no such file or directory Fixed in r49032, thanks. Darnit, thought that changing the /usr into ${prefix} would have been enough to escape the Xcode 2.5 bugs... Guess

Re: Bizarre error when building xgalaga!

2009-04-02 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Guess life isn't that simple. So, does this mean that the silly thing works on Leopard now ? (without sound) Works for me, on Tiger and Leopard (both on Intel, both without sound). Cool! That'd have to be a _really_ rainy day, completing that sound server...

Re: Bizarre error when building xgalaga!

2009-04-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
Scott Heftler wrote: b6$ sudo port install xgalaga --- Building xgalaga In file included from data.c:19: data.h:69: error: array type has incomplete element type data.h:72: error: array type has incomplete element type Any ideas? That's not really bizarre, it's just missing an

Re: Bizarre error when building xgalaga!

2009-04-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
Scott Heftler wrote: Ported most of the fixes over from Fink, but it wasn't much fun without the sound anyway so I didn't post it. Suppose I could, if anyone would find it interesting... So all I have to do is have MacPorts port the missing header file? It should be working with revision

Re: Bizarre error when building xgalaga!

2009-04-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
Scott Heftler wrote: It should be working with revision 1. On Tiger's X11, anyway. Feel free to test it on Leopard, and get the sound working I'm running Leopard. What package do I need to port now? I did port search data and got nothing. Do I need to go to the Find site and look around

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-26 Thread Anders F Björklund
Darren Weber wrote: I've been working with macports under the mis-apprehension that it would operate along the lines of freeBSD (and some frustration may arise mostly from that lack of understanding). I decided that it's time for me to do some long-overdue homework. I've been working

Re: compile farm?

2009-03-23 Thread Anders F Björklund
Darren Weber wrote: This suggestion may be too complicated, but it's a thought. Suppose it is possible to create a virtual machine or some kind of encapsulated clean environment (perhaps like a java sdk or something), which can contain any of the environments for OSX (10.x), or at least

Re: port install efficiency issue

2009-03-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: * I was under the impression Mac Ports was sort of to replace Fink, is that not the case? What are the pros and cons, differences? Is Fink still active? Fink and MacPorts are both package management systems for Mac OS X. I myself switched from Fink to what is now

Re: binary rpm repos?

2009-03-09 Thread Anders F Björklund
Emmanuel Hainry wrote: The dependency does not need to be in the package, it is already in the Portfiles. Actually, it does... But currently it just includes the entire Portfile into the archive, which is rather hacky. Or at least it would be nice to not require a Tcl parser in order to

Re: binary rpm repos?

2009-03-09 Thread Anders F Björklund
Joshua Root wrote: One problem with the current system is that the archives are sorted by OS and Arch, but not including OS version. That is, the binaries for Tiger and Leopard would go to the same file path - unless having a platform variant... It also needs digests (e.g. SHA) and signatures

Re: binary rpm repos?

2009-03-09 Thread Anders F Björklund
Brian Forte wrote: At risk of igniting an argument I believe it's worth noting there are two active RPM projects. There are probably better places to pick RPM fights, than on MacPorts... The [RPM 4.x project][1] is maintained by Panu Matilainen, who works for Red Hat. The [RPM 5.x

Re: binary rpm repos?

2009-03-08 Thread Anders F Björklund
Alexy Khrabrov wrote: It turns out RPM works fine on Mac: http://rpm4darwin.sourceforge.net/ There's also a couple of RPM ports in MacPorts, and a port rpm target to package any port up as a binary package or port srpm for source rpm. See http://guide.macports.org/#using.binaries The

Re: apache2 location

2009-03-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt: In fact I can't imagine there being another Tcl-based MacPorts client. The port command handles most of what a user would need in a command line client, and if someone were making a GUI for MacPorts, I doubt they would do so in Tcl. PortAuthority (formerly known as dpgui)

Re: lzma invoked incorrectly for mpfr port ?

2009-01-29 Thread Anders F Björklund
Joe VanAndel wrote: Thanks, I was missing the install of the lzmautils package, which installed /opt/local/bin/lzma. The 'lzma' package installs /opt/local/bin/lzma_alone, which I had linked to /opt/local/bin/lzma, by mistake. That is not correct, as they (unfortunately) use different

Re: dpkg problems

2009-01-15 Thread Anders F Björklund
Chris Jones wrote: Slightly OT, but what packages can be installed on the mac using dpkg ? Fink ones ? MacPorts has better support for RPM than what it does for DEB. --anders ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Re: GnuCash packaging

2009-01-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Charles Day wrote: ... it just appears that relatively few people care about building binaries. Maybe not too many care about building them, but a lot care about distributing them once they are built. A distribution of GnuCash for Mac in binary form is one of the more requested features

Re: GnuCash packaging

2009-01-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Joshua Root wrote: Given that this has been around for 2 years, is this considered a bug or a feature? Heh, there are bugs that have been around longer... it just appears that relatively few people care about building binaries. Was referring to

Re: GnuCash packaging

2009-01-03 Thread Anders F Björklund
Charles Day wrote: Well I tried the following workaround for ticket 10881, but macports started trying to include the wrong dependencies. For example, it tried to include dependencies based on X11 when I specified gnucash +no_x11 (see gnome-desktop at the end as an example). In

Re: GnuCash packaging

2009-01-03 Thread Anders F Björklund
Joshua Root wrote: DEBUG: Calling /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ PackageMaker for gnucash pkg Warning: Unknown argument: -AppleLanguages Warning: Unknown argument: (English) It is the same error I checked the the Apple docs on Packagmaker.app and they

Re: Distfiles mirror behind proxy

2008-12-11 Thread Anders F Björklund
Max Asato wrote: This thread got a bit fragmented so I'll restate this particular problem. Sorry about the length of this posting. I had created a binary archive on one system and copied the archive to another system in the hopes that I could install the binaries directly and avoid a second

Re: Distfiles mirror behind proxy

2008-12-10 Thread Anders F Björklund
Max Asato wrote: Last but not least, is there any way to get MacPorts to install packages from a port archive file that was built on another system? I've set the portarchivemode parameter in macports.conf on two intel Macs (both running 10.4.11), built a package on one and copied the

Re: Generating a list of all installed software (or something like that).

2008-12-05 Thread Anders F Björklund
Tim Visher wrote: I'd be interested in generating a complete list of all software I have installed through MacPorts so that I don't have to back up my installation in case of a hard drive failure. Basic use case would be that if my disk fails, I just download MacPorts again, and then run this

Re: Using libsdl-framework

2008-12-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
Braden McDaniel: Normally this is handled by `sdl-config`, not so with Xcode. Ah, you mean if I'm using libsdl (i.e., not the framework variant). Yup. (gcc -o foo `sdl-config --cflags --libs` foo.c) Using frameworks outside of Xcode.app usually lands in unsupported, i.e. most setups are

Re: Using libsdl-framework

2008-11-30 Thread Anders F Björklund
Braden McDaniel wrote: Is MacPorts' libsdl-framework usable directly from C and C++, or do I need an Objective-C entry point as described here? http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php?action=listentriescategory=7#55 For Cocoa backend with SDL 1.2 you need a SDLMain entry point. Normally this is

Re: Chosing the C and C++ compilers

2008-11-06 Thread Anders F Björklund
Akim Demaille wrote: Really, I just wish I had a simple means (= not by having to specify it on each port command line) to specify CC and CXX. Or else, I would prefer that the hard coded values be fully qualified (/usr/bin/i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1) instead of short (/usr/bin/

Re: Chosing the C and C++ compilers

2008-11-06 Thread Anders F Björklund
Akim Demaille wrote: Ah, OK, didn't think about that, thanks! Then in that case I suppose that there are means to tell /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 what arch I'm aiming for (686, ppc, or universal). I suppose via something like - march. In which case, it's even better than using the fully

Re: Chosing the C and C++ compilers

2008-11-06 Thread Anders F Björklund
Akim Demaille wrote: Thank you, but there seems to be some misunderstanding here: I am not asking for help on how I should talk to GCC, but rather how I should tell macports to use the compiler in a more useful way. I do think that rather than leaving gcc-4.0 what's to be done, macports

Re: ASSP out of date (Portfile complexity)

2008-11-05 Thread Anders F Björklund
Bryan Blackburn wrote: Can you elaborate a little on this, I am not sure I understand what you mean. What would you suggest I do? I already have ASSP running via hand compile, but wanted to use this as a way to possibly supply a working install back to the community. Same with mrtg as

Re: MacPort deployment

2008-10-24 Thread Anders F Björklund
IT wrote: I have installed pdftk Macport in my administrator computer. Now i want to deploy the binaries and all related files to run pdftk on 20 networked macs without copying all /opt directory. Please, anybody can advice me about the best way to deploy a MacPort from the administrator

Re: Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file

2008-10-24 Thread Anders F Björklund
Marcus Bointon wrote: I don't see why it should be looking in the current dir to upgrade outdated packages anyway, and it's obviously not having any trouble finding the portfiles in the normal install location. Is it that 'outdated' resolves to ''? Just sounds like a bug in MacPorts

Re: Status of mdmg, dmg,... port subcommands

2008-10-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Olaf Foellinger: The package could not be created because of the following errors: Root directory /opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome _gnucash/work/destroot is not valid. I wanted to ask what's the current status of these

Re: pango 1.22.0 requires glib 2.17.3 or later but you have glib 2.16.5.

2008-10-16 Thread Anders F Björklund
David Epstein wrote: My error message must have been dealt with somewhere in the list, possibly many times, but I haven't been able to find it. I was trying to install gimp: sudo port install gimp Eventually I got the error message Target org.macports.configure returned: pango 1.22.0

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-12 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: I really don't want to have to build or use a bootstrapped GCC, X11 and all to have a self-contained MacPorts installation. Also, don't forget that only Apple's gcc installed with Xcode can create universal binaries in one step (with e.g. -arch i386 -arch ppc), which

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-12 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Well, then my next complaint would be with a bootstrapped X11. Apple X11 seems nice enough, but when I tried XFree86 it was totally ugly (weird non-Mac-like cursor and window behavior, etc.) I didn't try xorg, and I don't know if sources for Apple X11 are

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-11 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: As long as MacPorts builds ports from source, then Xcode is an absolute requirement (for gcc etc). If the day comes that MacPorts distributes binary packages, then Xcode may only be needed by some ports and not MacPorts as a whole. As a guess, the macports

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-11 Thread Anders F Björklund
nox wrote: One reason could be to keep MacPorts fully self-contained, and to cut down on the amount of outside dependencies... ? Currently there is a big grey zone of what's ok to use from system (GCC, X11, etc) and what is not (Perl, Python, etc) I really don't want to have to build or use

Re: There is no release manager! There is no release manager! [was Re: Gnome won't install]

2008-10-07 Thread Anders F Björklund
Julio Biason wrote: Perhaps we should send out some sort of announcement calling formally for volunteers for the position? Oh, what the hell, I have plenty of time these days. What should a Release Manager do? There's a summary of some of the things that needs to be done at:

Re: Gnome won't install

2008-09-30 Thread Anders F Björklund
Benedick Miller wrote: then this one looks good: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail Good luck. Thanks for the tip, however that is where I started! Sep 1 is sudo port install gnome. As this doesn't work I am a bit disspaointed in macports! GNOME isn't being maintained at

Re: failed to build dia

2008-09-29 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: However, the missing _jas_whatever symbols from your second message is a mystery to me so someone with knowledge of gtk and jasper will have to look into that. I'm hoping Anthony will have some idea, or know where to ask for help. Seems to be fallout for doing the major

Re: failed to build dia

2008-09-29 Thread Anders F Björklund
Normen Müller wrote: Seems to be fallout for doing the major upgrade GTK 2.12 to 2.14 and enabling jasper (JPEG200) in the process. Trying to sort out... http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16685 (r40275) http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16689 I am sorry, but I am not sure if I understood you

Re: failed to build dia

2008-09-29 Thread Anders F Björklund
Normen Müller wrote: you trying to fix this? Well, you can downgrade to 2.12 again while it is being fixed... Either that, or take out port:jasper and add --without-libjasper --anders As I am still a newbie to macports, I will just wait for the fix, cause I guess your suggested

Re: failed to build dia

2008-09-29 Thread Anders F Björklund
Normen Müller wrote: The building of GTK+ 2.14 has been fixed in revision 2. You will still get activation problems with conflicts against the gail port, but that is expected since gail has now been included in gtk2. This is the same as: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16688 (for +quartz)

Re: Fixed: C compiler cannot create executables

2008-09-28 Thread Anders F Björklund
Martin Krischik wrote: He said it was 13MB. So my guess is that some script did a cp foo /usr/local expected that /usr/local already existed as a directory. This is why the --target-directory was invented (at least for gnu's cp). Very helpful for scripts. Also very helpful is setopt

Re: Creating source packages?

2008-09-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Jay Levitt wrote: I have a developer who lives in a rural area, with no broadband access. (OK, stop laughing.) Worse, his 28.8K dialup ISP has an 8-hour max session time, so anything signifcantly large just can't be downloaded, period. I want to send him a DVD-ROM of some large

Re: set deployment target from macports.conf

2008-08-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Harry van der Wolf wrote: I'm currently on Tiger but I'm planning to move to Leopard. I build bundles for 2 open source projects currently by hand compiling almost every library as universal. I'm trying to move to MacPorts as that's much simpler and MacPorts has much improved in the

Re: set deployment target from macports.conf

2008-08-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Theoretically +universal should be able to handle this, but cross-compiling isn't really supported in MacPorts. Yeah. So why did we expose the options in macports.conf again? :) We were trying some stuff out in trunk, when somebody (ehrm) said you can't do things in code

Re: set deployment target from macports.conf

2008-08-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Theoretically +universal should be able to handle this, but cross-compiling isn't really supported in MacPorts. Yeah. So why did we expose the options in macports.conf again? :) Note that macports.conf in trunk has some more features... (which still isn't supported, but

Re: Manual install

2008-05-14 Thread Anders F Björklund
Simon Wheatley wrote: Is it possible to point MacPorts at a downloaded package of some kind and say install that? Something similar to Debian's 'dpkg -i'? Not at the moment... You can build a package (pkg/rpm/deb), but then it doesn't integrate with the already installed ports and registry

Re: error installing cogito

2008-05-13 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: We can't use 'array unset env' as that is documented to disconnect Tcl from the environment, and some messing around hasn't shown a clean way to work around this. Maybe a Tcl expert is needed, and determining if this is Mac-specific or 8.4.7; of course, either way,

Re: Newbie Question about Binary Packages

2008-05-02 Thread Anders F Björklund
Mikael wrote: I'm a complete newbie to compiling binaries, and UNIX for that matter, so please forgive me for any ignorant questions. I'm hoping to use MacPorts to compile binary packages that can be distributed and installed on other computers. I've been practicing with hexedit.

Re: Building MacPorts using MacPorts

2008-04-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Michael Franz wrote: I am trying to use macport to build and install macports. I used sudo port -v build macports and get build errors. I find this strange since if I just download the source and compile with the instructions on the website it works without a problem. cc -dynamiclib

Re: Adventures in 64-bit computing

2008-03-31 Thread Anders F Björklund
Emil Lundberg wrote: Still failing to get 64-bit MacPorts to work properly, I though I'd relay my progress so far. The short story is some ports do not compile properly as ppc64. Others do, but don't compile properly on x86_64. I'm prepared, of course, to notify the individual

Re: Ports requiring X11 on Leopard

2008-03-28 Thread Anders F Björklund
Michael Franz: Also, which is better to use: lib:libX11:XFree86 or port:xorg-libX11 ? The first version is better (lib:), because then one can use a system version of X11 (such as Apple's X11.app) instead of having to install either of the XFree86 or xorg* ports... Currently GCC and X11 are

Re: gtk2 compilation failed

2008-03-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
Alejandro Aragon wrote: I was trying to build pidgin, and when compiling gtk2 I had the following error: i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1: /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.2.0.0.dylib: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [libgdk-x11-2.0.la] Error 1 I'm new to Mac OS so I was wondering why this

Re: Errors installing gtk2

2008-03-19 Thread Anders F Björklund
kevin kempter wrote: i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1: /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.2.0.0.dylib: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [libgdk-x11-2.0.la] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 Error:

Re: Upgrade to Leopard mostly smooth, but has small glitch

2008-03-08 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: and as a hint, if you install BBedit's command line tools, you can simply type edit filename instead of all that other stuff. Or use TextWrangler, for those who are short of coin. It has the same facility. BBEdit's command line tools are called bbedit and bbdiff.

Re: livecheck problem

2008-02-27 Thread Anders F Björklund
Frank Schima wrote: I'm having a problem running livecheck without sudo: $ port livecheck blt Error: Unable to execute port: /opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync .macports.org_release_ports_x11_blt/work/.macports.blt.state is not writable - check permission

Re: MacPorts caching of distfiles [was Re: ntfs-3g 1.1120 source missing]

2008-02-24 Thread Anders F Björklund
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Before fetching all the files, it would probably nice to fix the timestamps so that they correctly reflect the upstream distfile ? I guess I'm missing something. Why is this important? Distfiles are essentially opaque to the MacPorts user, so what would be the

Re: MacPorts caching of distfiles [was Re: ntfs-3g 1.1120 source missing]

2008-02-24 Thread Anders F Björklund
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I fail to understand this stubborn insistence on date stamp and group information for files which are simply not meant to be user visible. There is no group information you need to see on the distfile mirror because you won't be managing the distfile mirror. I worked

Re: error: conflicting types for 'uuid_t' .......what?

2008-02-23 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 23, 2008, at 03:38, Brent Austin wrote: When I try to build apr I get the following: In file included from misc/unix/rand.c:39: /opt/local/include/uuid.h:94: error: conflicting types for 'uuid_t' /usr/include/unistd.h:121: error: previous declaration of 'uuid_t'

Re: using a different compiler with macports

2008-02-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Wes James wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Rainer Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wes James wrote: I'm trying to find the config file in macports to change the CC and CXX default parameters that configure uses when it is run on each package. Can someone help me with this. Not

Re: MacPorts caching of distfiles [was Re: ntfs-3g 1.1120 source missing]

2008-02-22 Thread Anders F Björklund
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: One of these things would be how we would push files on the mirror? If we keep master_sites we could use something like `port fetch all' in a cronjob or in a post-commit hook. But that will have the problem that it

Re: Macports On Pure Darwin

2008-02-17 Thread Anders F Björklund
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: This topic was, in any case, hashed out rather thoroughly back when the project changed its name from DarwinPorts to MacPorts. GIven the plethora of projects already devoted to multi-platform ports collections (portage, pkgsrc, etc) and the relative shortage

Re: macports installation vs 10.5.1/Xcode 3.0?

2008-02-07 Thread Anders F Björklund
Rainer Müller wrote: Paths in /etc/manpaths.d and /etc/paths.d are always added at the end of MANPATH and PATH. Therefore, installs by MacPorts will not override the default Mac OS X installation. As it is not possible to prepend new paths, this option is rather useless for us. I think

Re: libtool woes

2008-02-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Zak Mc Kracken wrote: libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' This problem is since the change to /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 for CC. Switching compiler back to gcc (or gcc-4.0) makes it work. Something like: port build configure.cc=gcc

Re: libtool woes

2008-02-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: I think the change was made for 1.5.1. I thought the change was made for 1.6.0? http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/changeset/27018 Doesn't matter... --anders ___ macports-users mailing list

Re: libtool woes

2008-02-03 Thread Anders F Björklund
paul beard wrote: Looks like I have some problem with libtool. libIDL and Apache2 both fail to upgrade.  ... libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' This problem is since the change to /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 for CC. Switching compiler

Re: Can the port command take advantage of multiple cores?

2008-02-03 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: Ryan As ports are tested, use_parallel_build yes is added to the Ryan portfile. Then MacPorts will build those ports using -j$jobs Ryan (where $jobs is the number of CPU cores in your computer). This Ryan was added for MacPorts 1.6. Excellent, thanks.

Re: Do macports and fink conflict

2008-01-16 Thread Anders F Björklund
Alistair Gallworthy wrote: Is it possible to install both MacPorts and fink and run them side-by-side without conflict? Yes, but it is not the default mode of installation... (i.e. you need to modify the default configuration) For instance, I know that both systems install their own

Re: LibSDL build failure on Mac OS 10.5.

2008-01-11 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:52, William Gallafent wrote: On 11 Jan 2008, at 16:44, William Gallafent wrote: --- Applying patches to libsdl Error: Target org.macports.patch returned: shell command cd /opt/local/var/macports/build/

Re: Does MacPorts require XCode 3.0's UNIX developer support?

2008-01-08 Thread Anders F Björklund
J.D. Merrick wrote: When installing Xcode 3.0 on Leopard, by default Unix developer support is disabled. That is, by default the command line tools (gcc, ld, etc.) are installed in /Developer without adding to the boot volume symlinks to the tools in /usr/bin or to the header files in

Re: Error building p5-sdl_perl

2008-01-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
LeAnne Lis wrote: I am trying to install frozenbubble2, and I got additional errors after that with similar messages. Each time I encountered an error, I tried uninstalling the error'd item, then reinstalling the port and its dependencies with +universal, and then it worked, so I have

Re: Rebuild after Xcode update?

2008-01-02 Thread Anders F Björklund
Boey Maun Suang wrote: As for the compatibility of code built with Xcode 2.5 with that built with Xcode 2.2.1, I think that they should be largely compatible, as my reading of the release notes from 2.2.1 to 2.5 is that there have only been bugfixes and feature enhancements to Xcode's GCC in

Re: general dependency questions

2007-12-20 Thread Anders F Björklund
Also, the portfile for grace has the following dependency line: depends_lib lib:libX11.6:XFree86 \ X11 for Leopard provide X11R7 (instead of 6) and is based on xorg, not XFree86. But, I know that macports grace works in Leopard. So I'm wondering, how exactly is that line parsed?

Re: perl5.8 vs perl5.9 discrepancy

2007-12-13 Thread Anders F Björklund
John Lauck wrote: While I was debugging a perl script and installing various cpan modules I noticed I had both perl5.8 and 5.9 installed.  Both were marked as active but perl5.8 was linked to /opt/local/bin/perl.  I decided to deactivate perl5.8 , deactivate perl5.9 and then reactivate

Re: Mac OS X 10.3 support (was: Re: Installing python25 on OS X 10.3 failed)

2007-11-19 Thread Anders F Björklund
Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 19, 2007, at 14:02, Weissmann Markus wrote: 10.3 is not officially supported anymore*) and I do not even have access to a 10.3 box. This is the first I've heard of 10.3 not being supported anymore. Historically MacPorts has supported the current Mac OS X release

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-11-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
Joel Thibault wrote: Cool! When do you expect (or estimate) release 1.6 will be available? Is there a roadmap or other document available showing milestones such as these? The milestones are in Trac, but jmpp hasn't got around to defining 1.6 yet...

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-10-31 Thread Anders F Björklund
Parallell builds are an optional feature, and will never be disabled by default. *enabled* by default, darnit. --anders ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: XCode 3.0? Safe for old school Tiger users?

2007-10-30 Thread Anders F Björklund
David Corking wrote: I posted a bug report about Xcode Find (in a file versus in a project) and the developers said it should be fixed in Xcode 3.0. I think you will find the IDE portion of Xcode is closed source. If the bug is in the IDE, and Apple don't backport it themselves, you are out

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-10-30 Thread Anders F Björklund
I'd rather encourage a mechanism for port that provides a mechanism for port authors to know how many processors there are and to enable parallel builds if they know this to work. Perhaps a switch use_parallel_build [yes|no] that will add -j 2*CPUS to build.args. There's a bunch of other

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-10-30 Thread Anders F Björklund
Weissmann Markus: Yes, but I meant this to be a per-Portfile choice so a maintainer can mark his/her port as being able to build in parallel. Doing this with the sledgehammer for all ports that use 'make' might be a bit too much. ;) It is supposed to be the default... But broken ports might

Re: Using Ports and GIMP with Leopard

2007-10-28 Thread Anders F Björklund
David Orriss Jr wrote: I'm really having fights with GIMP 2.4 getting it to run... I get errors with the tiff libraries.. See http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12997 --anders ___ macports-users mailing list

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-10-28 Thread Anders F Björklund
js wrote: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070524074057479 From this article, I learned how we can easily speed up build phase of MacPorts. Can I make this behavior (-j) default for all ports using make? In MacPorts 1.6, you can set the -j parameter with build.jobs. ( see

Re: Is there any value to packages? [was Re: Why no binaries?]

2007-10-28 Thread Anders F Björklund
Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: 2) Once the build product, the destroot, is done and considered reliable, packaging it into, say, an rpm and/or a deb package is a completely different topic, with its own intricacies and integration issues between MacPorts and the packaging format we still need to

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-10-28 Thread Anders F Björklund
js wrote: Note that some ports will fail to build, when using make -j 2 What causes the build erorr? is it for bad Makefile or problem of -j option itself? Bad makefiles, usually missing dependencies. --anders ___ macports-users mailing list

Re: Is there any value to packages? [was Re: Why no binaries?]

2007-10-26 Thread Anders F Björklund
paul beard wrote: Is there a status document that addresses where things stand on efforts like this? I haven't been all that successful at building packages within port (port pkg foo where foo is something i would rather not build again on a second machine). I think I may have resorted to

Re: Is there any value to packages? [was Re: Why no binaries?]

2007-10-26 Thread Anders F Björklund
paul beard wrote: I missed something in my previous post: the directory for the port had been cleaned, and apparently the pkg command doesn't expect that, nor does it know what to do about it. So it bails.  If you build first, than issue the pkg command, it does work, as best I can tell. 

Re: Macports tree cleanup

2007-10-18 Thread Anders F Björklund
CHENG Gao wrote: Another example is apple-gcc. Tree has apple-gcc33 build 1819, and apple-gcc40 build 5363, while latest Tiger 10.4.10 has build 5367. Should they be updated? Or even apple-gcc33 be removed? Apple has not released the source code for Mac OS X 10.4.10 or Xcode 2.4.1 (only

Re: error Mozilla install on MacBook Intel

2007-10-14 Thread Anders F Björklund
Jochen Küpper wrote: On 14.10.2007, at 10:51, Randall Wood wrote: The Mozilla port is outdated, and the Mozilla package is no longer (officially) maintained upstream.[1] Maybe the port should be removed then? I am replacing the mozilla port with a seamonkey one, but it isn't done yet. Use

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