Re: Can brew and port be used on the same system?

2017-05-28 Thread Michael
On 2017-05-27, at 11:24 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: > It sounds like you got a build working already, so you probably done care > about this anymore, but this Portfile Works? It launches. It behaved so poorly that ... yuck. >

Re: Can brew and port be used on the same system?

2017-05-27 Thread Michael
—Mark >> ___ >> Mark E. Anderson <e...@emer.net> >> >> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Al Varnell <alvarn...@mac.com> wrote: >> I'm told it can be done now, but can get messy. I gave up on brew several >> years ago. Too many co

Can brew and port be used on the same system?

2017-05-27 Thread Michael
So apparently the open source code version of Jedi Knights Academy and Outcast https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK rely on brew's SDL 2, and have that installation pathname in their binaries. Can I install brew, with its use of /usr/local/, at the same time as ports? --- Entertaining minecraft

Upgrading python from 27 to 36

2017-04-26 Thread Michael
What is involved in switching from python 27 to python 36? I've been using python 27 for a while. I've run into a problem with youtube-dl needing a newer python. But I don't know what I need to do to safely update. It's not like python2 is a different program than python3 (same "python" in

Re: GitHub migration complete

2016-11-03 Thread Michael
On 2016-11-03, at 4:44 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Thursday November 03 2016 11:35:43 Clemens Lang wrote: > >> It's something we all have to deal with. Presumably, we will all learn over >> time. > > Presumably. Question is, who has to learn what, and how reasonable

Re: Moving to GitHub: Status Update, Action Required

2016-10-21 Thread Michael
On 2016-10-21, at 8:03 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >> On Oct 21, 2016, at 10:55 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Oct 21, 2016, at 9:47 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >>> On Oct 21, 2016, at 10:20 PM, Craig Treleaven

Re: Moving to GitHub: Status Update, Action Required

2016-10-21 Thread Michael
On 2016-10-21, at 8:03 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >> On Oct 21, 2016, at 10:55 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Oct 21, 2016, at 9:47 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >>> On Oct 21, 2016, at 10:20 PM, Craig Treleaven

Re: Subversion checkout failed...?

2016-10-08 Thread Michael
On 2016-10-08, at 9:23 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> So this is version 8 of the Google javascript engine. > > It refers to the Google JavaScript engine, whose name is "v8". If I have half of the codebase, do I have a "tempest"? :-) (how many people will get that auto

Re: Subversion checkout failed...?

2016-10-08 Thread Michael
On 2016-10-08, at 8:11 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote: > looks like v8 is here now: > > https://github.com/v8/v8 > >> >> These projects were both hosted at Google Code. Google Code no longer >> exists, so it's true that you can't check out the code from their now

Differences between the gitflows in ports?

2016-09-14 Thread Michael
So there are 5 different versions of gitflow in macports: git-flow @0.4.1_2 (devel) Git extensions for Vincent Driessen branching. (nvie) git-flow-avh @1.9.1_2 (devel) Git extensions for Vincent Driessen branching. (avh Edition) git-flow-bash-completion @0.4.2.2 (devel) Bash

Re: Boost version is old

2016-08-17 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Yongwei - Would you please attach a patch that updates the boost install to the latest here < https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50671 >? That way, folks can try it out & see how/if it works & comment back. Thanks! - MLD On Wed, Aug 17, 2016, at 09:39 PM, Yongwei Wu wrote: > I think the

Issues with install

2016-06-10 Thread Michael McGahan
Hi, I am unable to run any port commands from the terminal window. I've restarted terminal, I've verified I have the firewall is off (based on prior post) and have installed; xcode,accepted the eula, installed Xcode command line and mac ports for El Capitan. Every time I run the command I

Re: use of cpus in building

2016-05-28 Thread Michael David Crawford
of the core's capacity. Michael David Crawford, Baritone mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > On May 27, 2016, at 4:05 PM, Adam Dershow

Re: Failed build of OpenBlas on El Capitan

2016-05-24 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Comer - Looks like you're experiencing ticket #50950 < https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50950 >. Maybe some part of the discussion on it will be useful? HTH! - MLD On Tue, May 24, 2016, at 10:23 AM, Comer Duncan wrote: > Yesterday I upgraded mac os to El Capitan. All went fine.  Later I >

Re: de/activate and Time Machine

2016-04-26 Thread Michael
On 2016-04-26, at 7:47 AM, Geoffrey Odhner wrote: > I wish what you say were true, but Time Machine eventually can get to a point > where it requires you to delete everything or start a new backup volume. > This can happen when its size is considerably larger than the

Re: How do I find out who requested a port?

2016-04-13 Thread Michael
On 2016-04-13, at 3:50 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote: > Check out `port dependents gdk-pixbuf2` (with port deps being the other > direction). keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ port dependents xorg-libX11 gdk-pixbuf2 depends on xorg-libX11 mesa depends on xorg

How do I find out who requested a port?

2016-04-13 Thread Michael
How do I find out which port requested another port? Specifically, lets say I'd rather have quartz-based, rather than x11-based, ports installed. Attempting to install gtk3 -x11 +quartz gave me the error message that gdk-pixbuf2 must be installed without +x11. So I've got X11 installed,

Re: Why does Git depend on perl?

2016-04-10 Thread Michael
I was not aware that git, internally, has a bunch of perl scripts. Thank you. On 2016-04-10, at 6:24 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why does git need perl? Yes, my perl was outdated --

Why does Git depend on perl?

2016-04-10 Thread Michael
Attempting to upgrade git gave me this in the output: ---> Computing dependencies for git ---> Dependencies to be installed: p5.22-authen-sasl p5.22-digest-hmac p5.22-digest-sha1 p5.22-gssapi p5.22-cgi p5.22-html-parser p5.22-html-tagset p5.22-error p5.22-net-smtp-ssl p5.22-io-socket-ssl

Re: Unable to read CDs

2016-04-02 Thread Michael
On 2016-04-02, at 6:15 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 3:55 AM, Paul Rands wrote: > > It is a music cataloging program called Tellico, and is a KDE app. Apart > > from not being > able to open up a CD / DVD drive, it works

Re: Is there a good version of Time Machine?

2016-02-29 Thread Michael
On 2016-02-29, at 3:35 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Non-Apple implementations of AFP (i.e. netatalk) are simply not sufficiently > compatible with Apple's implementation to work reliably with Time Machine, no > matter what the third-party vendor trying to sell it to you

Re: Migration conflicting ports

2015-12-26 Thread Michael Dickens
Just built & works for me too (actual testing inside octave), so I committed the fix in r143912. Thanks for pointing out that issue! - MLD On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, at 06:55 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Dec 24, 2015, at 6:01 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > On 23 December 2015 at 16:12, Adam

Re: port selfupdate not working Yosemite 10.10.5

2015-12-22 Thread Mr. Michael Wilson
Thanks Ryan for the suggestions. I did use sudo of course but I wasn’t sure about Xcode. I fired it up and license was agreed to. I tried the self update again just to be safe and the same error message was returned. I have no explanation for this. Mike > On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:08 PM, Ryan

Re: port selfupdate not working Yosemite 10.10.5

2015-12-21 Thread Michael Beasley
ot;Mr. Michael Wilson" <mtwilson.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks good to me. I’m stumped. > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin - 170 Dec 17 18:47 > /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ > se > > Mike > > > On Dec 17, 2015, at 7:16 P

port selfupdate not working Yosemite 10.10.5

2015-12-17 Thread Mr. Michael Wilson
I had not updated my ports in a while and when I tried I got this with sudo port -v selfupdate... ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync receiving file list ... done sent 36 bytes received 69 bytes 19.09 bytes/sec total size is 27013120 speedup is 257267.81 receiving file list ...

Re: port selfupdate not working Yosemite 10.10.5

2015-12-17 Thread Mr. Michael Wilson
Looks good to me. I’m stumped. drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin - 170 Dec 17 18:47 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ se Mike > On Dec 17, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > ls -ldeO@ >

building some ports stalls on xcodebuild

2015-11-17 Thread Michael Parson
ought that maybe something had gotten goofed up after my recent HD crash/restore from TimeMachine, so I decided to follow the 'macports migration' steps and attempt a clean/fresh install of my wanted ports from scratch and 'gmp' is where it got hung up this time. -- Michael Parson Austin, TX K

Re: openssl vs. libressl

2015-11-13 Thread Michael
On 2015-11-13, at 1:33 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Telling it to "stop using them" is not unlike telling Apple they should stop > shipping anything but the latest version of a whole range of things shipped > with the OS (python comes to mind). There's a responsibility to

Re: Volunteer for a workshop on "setting up your own buildbot/buildslave"? (Was: Experiences with El Capitan)

2015-11-12 Thread Michael David Crawford
none of which ever ran on OS X, to ask me if I could re-release them. I expect I could earn quite a good income doing nothing other than selling QuickLetter, which was written largely in 68k assembly code and never even ported to PowerPC. (It was built on the same CoreEdit as MacWrite was.)

Re: Volunteer for a workshop on "setting up your own buildbot/buildslave"? (Was: Experiences with El Capitan)

2015-11-12 Thread Michael David Crawford
the powerpc binaries had been withdrawn. It's one thing to stop supporting a product, quite another to actively prevent its use. Michael David Crawford, Baritone mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Eneko

Re: Volunteer for a workshop on "setting up your own buildbot/buildslave"? (Was: Experiences with El Capitan)

2015-11-12 Thread Michael David Crawford
Not MacPorts specifically but that has been my experience with numerous software packages. Michael David Crawford, Baritone mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.

Re: Volunteer for a workshop on "setting up your own buildbot/buildslave"? (Was: Experiences with El Capitan)

2015-11-10 Thread Michael David Crawford
at results in failure. Michael David Crawford, Baritone mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt

Re: CMake cannot find Qt4

2015-11-06 Thread Michael Dickens
Set the environment variable: {{{ QMAKE=/opt/local/libexec/qt4/bin/qmake }}} before running cmake. If you're inside a Portfile, then just do: {{{ PortGroup qt4 1.0 }}} somewhere before the cmake command. - MLD On Fri, Nov 6, 2015, at 09:26 AM, Davide Liessi wrote: > I'm trying to build a

Re: Rebuild old version of port?

2015-10-14 Thread Michael Dickens
thus far, luckily. - MLD On Wed, Oct 14, 2015, at 09:00 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Michael Dickens > <michae...@macports.org> wrote: >> 1) I find no OpenModelica port in my search ("port search >>OpenModelica"). Maybe this

Re: Rebuild old version of port?

2015-10-14 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Adam - 1) I find no OpenModelica port in my search ("port search OpenModelica"). Maybe this port actually goes by a different name? Maybe it is local to your system? Since this is a qt4 issue, I'm happy to help (being the one who committed the change to move the qt4 install into

Re: about fragmentation (of free disk space)

2015-10-11 Thread Michael David Crawford
In principle a highly fragmented disk has less payload capacity, and will be slower to access because of all the indirect blocks. I don't know whether that makes a real-world difference. Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com

Re: Sophos Antivirus claims port 'zlib' ships a Virus/Spyware called "iPh/WireLurk-G"...

2015-09-04 Thread Michael David Crawford
Your Hackathon Challenge, should you choose to accept it: Prepend a jump table to a virus that results in a word processor. This list post will self-destruct in five seconds. Michael David Crawford P.E., Consulting Process Architect mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://mike.soggywizard.com/ One

Re: Help with a port

2015-08-18 Thread Michael David Crawford
them in the lynx.cfg with what seems the same required syntax. I would be ever so grateful if you were to undertake to compile lynx with this functionality. Dan On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Michael David Crawford wrote: I would be happy to build Lynx with the configuration of your heart's desire

Re: Help with a port

2015-08-18 Thread Michael David Crawford
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com wrote: I love MacPorts but it is beyond the comprehension of many. Eneko Gotzon enekogot...@gmail.com ​ Yes but we have all our lives for learn… :)​ +1 Touché On 8/18/15, Eneko Gotzon enekogot...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Help with a port

2015-08-17 Thread Michael David Crawford
To Light. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future Yet G-d Almighty Himself Possesseth Not the Power to Undo the Past

Re: selfupdate fails

2015-08-17 Thread Michael David Crawford
On Monday, August 17, 2015, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Aug 17, 2015, at 8:01 PM, Michael David Crawford wrote: Yes, you can change what servers MacPorts uses: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors If you can set up an rsync server on your network, and that server can

Re: selfupdate fails

2015-08-17 Thread Michael David Crawford
can configure MacPorts to sync using a different method, such as by getting the daily tarball via http or by getting the sources directly from our Subversion repository. Sent from the vast empty reaches of intergalactic space. -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer

Re: Help with a port

2015-08-15 Thread Michael Beasley
On Aug 15, 2015, at 1:39 PM, - dandun...@gmail.com wrote: I went to from the url given below: https://trac.macports.org/auth/login/?next=/newticket https://trac.macports.org/auth/login/?next=/newticket As was mentioned at the url below, one needs to register to submit a ticket.

Re: octave-control configure fail

2015-07-07 Thread Michael Dickens
, 2015, at 03:18 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 5, 2015, at 12:50 PM, Michael Dickens wrote: I've been working on a fix to this issue, but haven't finalized it yet. The problem is that mkoctfile hard-codes -L and -I paths, when what it should actually do is glean them at runtime just before

Re: octave-control configure fail

2015-07-05 Thread Michael Dickens
I've been working on a fix to this issue, but haven't finalized it yet. The problem is that mkoctfile hard-codes -L and -I paths, when what it should actually do is glean them at runtime just before compiling or linking. My way around this is to override the settings in mkoctfile by those

Re: port upgrade octave fails

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Joerg - Can you try: {{{ sudo port clean octave sudo port install octave +gcc48 }}} and see if that helps. Sometimes it does, though I kinda doubt it will in your case. If not, then do a search https://trac.macports.org/search to see if someone else has already reported the same (or very

Re: Cmake failed to build GIMP Inkscape Gnumeric do not start

2015-04-13 Thread Michael Dickens
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015, at 01:35 PM, Eneko Gotzon wrote: I frequently run: sudo port clean --all installed And, that's a good thing. You might also want to try: {{{ sudo port reclaim }}} every so often. Also: {{{ sudo port selfupdate }}} is good to keep 'port' up to date. But, the main issue is

Re: Cmake failed to build GIMP Inkscape Gnumeric do not start

2015-04-13 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Enrico - Glad those worked too. As I like to say: cruft happens! Cleaning often takes care of these build issues. As to what's going on with running Gimp, I don't know; I don't have or use Gimp (from MacPorts or elsewhere). Check out the Console.app look under User Diagnostic Reports to see

Re: Cmake failed to build GIMP Inkscape Gnumeric do not start

2015-04-13 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Enrico - When submitting a build error -- whether on this list or on a ticket -- please do the following beforehand for the port in issue (in this case, cmake), and alway submit a full build log (not just the latest try; see also the first item in the MacPorts FAQ:

Re: Cmake failed to build GIMP Inkscape Gnumeric do not start

2015-04-13 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Enrico - Glad it worked; you're welcome! As for the others, try cleaning each, and when the build fails check out each build log to see if the issue is common or separate. File tickets accordingly, after a search for whether a ticket is already open with your issues. - MLD On Mon, Apr 13,

Re: what was up with ntp again?

2015-03-23 Thread Michael
The longer version I'll briefly gloss: Apple replaced traditional ntp with one that uses less power and is more laptop friendly, when it works right. But it assumes that the clock drift of a brand new machine is the same as that of a fully burned-in and deployed machine, which it might well

Re: Status of gfortran?

2015-03-09 Thread Michael Crawford
ask about in on a high energy physics list, or a HEP google group. particle physicists are heavily into fortran. Speaking as one, we used to use F77, years back, but these days we mostly use C++. Praise the Lord. I dropped out of my UCSC Physics degree in 1987 to work in industry for a few

Re: Status of gfortran?

2015-03-08 Thread Michael Crawford
ask about in on a high energy physics list, or a HEP google group. particle physicists are heavily into fortran. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Re: Install netatalk on OS X 10.8.5 - error (incomplete definition of type 'struct _ipp_s')

2015-03-08 Thread Michael Crawford
Many of the protocols that were once built on top of AppleTalk are now built on top of TCP/IP. I know that was done specifically for AppleShare; I don't know about printing but I expect that Mac OS X now uses something like BSD's print spooler. Mike Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software

Re: error while building uhd

2015-03-04 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Jim - I'm going to work with you off-list since this is a 32/64 bit issue will require some programming work on my part and testing on your part. If we come up with something relevant to this list, I'll email a summary. - MLD On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, at 06:27 PM, Jim Goudie wrote: OS X 10.6.8

Re: Perl -- Why is 5.16 (not 5.20) the default?

2015-02-23 Thread Michael
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Michael wrote: I'd like to know if there is a good reason (such as incompatible language change) for perl to be at 5.16 by default? See: https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2015-February/029762.html I feel so timely

Perl -- Why is 5.16 (not 5.20) the default?

2015-02-22 Thread Michael
I'd like to know if there is a good reason (such as incompatible language change) for perl to be at 5.16 by default? I noticed this when I was about to update git -- checking the variants of git, I saw that perl5.16 was the default used by git, and what looks like 2 years out of date. ---

Re: On reloading MacOS

2015-02-14 Thread Michael Crawford
Make more than one backup. Test them both before you wipe. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:34 PM, René J.V. rjvber

Re: updating a very old Macports install

2015-02-11 Thread Michael
I am trying to avoid cleaning and reinstalling everything. Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions? Yea, clean and re-install everything. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Re: about TM backing up ${prefix} - another wild(ish?) idea

2015-02-10 Thread Michael
of changes in a day gets turned into only a single set of net changes at the end. Second, you can get a list of what has changed. $ pushd $(tmutil machinedirectory) keybounceMBP:Keybounce’s MacBook Pro michael$ tmutil compare 2015-02-10-054534 2015-02-10-064618 ! 181B(mtime) /Volumes

Re: cmake 3.1

2015-02-09 Thread Michael Dickens
FYI that I created a unified patch to bring the CMake port to 3.1.2 from the current SVN head, and attached it to the appropraite ticket https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46493#comment:12 . I think this change keeps the same functionality with the Darwin Platform changes as before; the CMake devs

Re: /etc/paths

2015-02-07 Thread Michael
And then there the orthogonal issue of Apps launched from the Finder which get PATH from launchd and for which neither path_helper nor shell startup files help. Once upon a time, I hacked a solution with a daemon watching .bashrc and friends to keep the PATH of the shell and that of

Re: /etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Michael
On 2015-02-06, at 10:25 AM, Luc Bourhis luc_j_bour...@mac.com wrote: On 6 Feb 2015, at 19:21, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Shame on me! You are right. This is a new computer and /etc/paths did not get copied from the old one as I thought. Sorry for the noise and thanks for your

Mono -- does it really need X11?

2015-02-06 Thread Michael
I'm trying to install a program that needs mono, because it's written for C#. So, I try to install mono from macports. ... and it wants to pull in all of X11? Does C# really require X11? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce

Re: Mono -- does it really need X11?

2015-02-06 Thread Michael
The standard library includes the GUI components, and I don't think current versions make it very easy to split out just the C# compiler and basic libraries. And I'd guess that C# doesn't make a lot of sense without being able to use GUI thingies. However, Mono uses GTk2, no? And

/etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Michael
Shame on me! You are right. This is a new computer and /etc/paths did not get copied from the old one as I thought. Sorry for the noise and thanks for your patience! /etc/paths? This is the first I've seen any indication of this. Where is this documented? Is this the apple-approved way to add

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-04 Thread Michael Crawford
DNS is a protocol, not an API. To the extent that hosts is used, it's because developer of the software that implements the protocol chooses to use it. It's a PITA if it's not used - I quite commonly set up small networks in my own office, with static IPs hardwired into my hosts files. Michael

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread Michael Crawford
have been proliferating lately. MIke Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:06 PM, William H. Magill mag...@mac.com wrote

Re: how do ports install into ${destroot} instead of into ${prefix} directly?

2014-12-11 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi René - If the Makefile is hand-written, it probably does not contain a way to set DESTROOT or some other variable to direct where to install stuff outside of PREFIX -- you'll need to read through the Makefile to verify, generally in the install: section. If this is this case, you have to add

Re: how do ports install into ${destroot} instead of into ${prefix} directly?

2014-12-11 Thread Michael Dickens
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014, at 12:38 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: On Thursday December 11 2014 11:53:00 Michael Dickens wrote: Hi René - If the Makefile is hand-written, it probably does not contain a way to set DESTROOT or some other variable to direct where to install stuff outside of PREFIX

Re: Can I use MacPorts to install Octave 3.6.4?

2014-12-11 Thread Michael Dickens
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014, at 03:13 PM, Ray Zimmerman wrote: Now back to my original goal, getting multiple versions of octave installed … if I now do the following to build version 3.6.4 of Octave … svn co -r 121949 http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/math/octave cd

Re: concurrent qt4-mac: request feedback testing for current port phase in Portfile?

2014-12-10 Thread Michael Dickens
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014, at 04:03 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: On Wednesday December 10 2014 15:50:59 Lawrence Velázquez wrote: On Dec 10, 2014, at 2:27 PM, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: patches_welcome You're welcome to try to rework the Qt ports so that they can be

Re: Can I use MacPorts to install Octave 3.6.4?

2014-12-09 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Ray - You actually want to look at the Portfile itself for the version info. In this case, the one you want is https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/math/octave/Portfile?rev=121949 .. or, revision 121949. The next revision of this Portfile (121950) bumps the version to 3.8.1.

Re: Ntp -- getting it to work

2014-11-24 Thread Michael
change and not show a timestamp, and 2. WTF is going on with apple's NTP?, and 3. Is there any way to change the tick value? as reported by keybounceMBP:config michael$ sysctl kern.clockrate kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 1, tickadj = 0, profhz = 100, stathz = 100 } The idea here

Re: Which Xcode?

2014-11-23 Thread Michael Crawford
Warp Life (http://www.warplife.com/life/). I'm planning to release the source as Free Software. That source release isn't going to come with an Xcode project, because I have grown so weary of new versions of Xcode breaking stuff that used to work well. Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http

Re: Which Xcode?

2014-11-23 Thread Michael Crawford
CodeWarrior Pro 8 for both Windows and Mac. It's quite nice. Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:51 AM, René JV Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder

Re: Ntp -- getting it to work

2014-11-22 Thread Michael
On 2014-11-22, at 2:01 AM, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday November 21 2014 19:30:24 Michael wrote: And yes, ntpq -p (mind your p's and q's), and ntpq -c sysinfo, work fine. But loopinfo seems to be gone. Out of curiosity, what's wrong with the system's ntp? I'm

Re: mystonline-wine install problems

2014-11-22 Thread Michael
Hi, hope someone can help me with this… I have been trying to install Myst Online through MacPorts, using the mystonline-wine package. Hi Kevin, thanks for writing; I didn't know anyone was still using my Myst Online ports. I haven't done much with them in about 4 years. I need to try

Ntp -- getting it to work

2014-11-21 Thread Michael
I'm trying to get the macports ntp to work I have disabled the system ntpd by unchecking the preference in date and time preference to synchronize. I have used sudo port load ntp to start the ntpd daemon. I've verified that it is running. But ntpdc -s fails to get anything other than localhost:

Re: Ntp -- getting it to work

2014-11-21 Thread Michael
On 2014-11-21, at 5:54 PM, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: did you try 'ntpq -p' instead of the deprecated ntpdc? -- No, I did not know that ntpdc was considered dead. And yes, ntpq -p (mind your p's and q's), and ntpq -c sysinfo, work fine. But loopinfo seems to be gone. But, it

Re: Problem with ntfs-3g

2014-11-20 Thread Michael
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I can't get it to actually load a kernel driver to get the user fuse stuff going, and mount_ntfs never gets called. Are you on Yosemite? Apple no longer allows unsigned kernel drivers unless you tweak a magic boot setting

Problem with ntfs-3g

2014-11-19 Thread Michael
So I just submitted ticket https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45947 for ntfs-3g, but it is nomaintainers. I can't get it to actually load a kernel driver to get the user fuse stuff going, and mount_ntfs never gets called. The port notes make reference to stuff needed to make fuse4x work, but

Moving portions (or all) of /opt without sandboxing issues

2014-11-18 Thread Michael
Is there a way to safely move /opt without running into sandboxing issues? A simple symlink of /opt to /Volumes/drive-name/opt for example gave me problems. What I want to move, because of the size, is opt/local/share/mystonline --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce

Re: Odd non-fatal GIMP Behavior

2014-11-18 Thread Michael Crawford
put this stuff up on my new site yet. I'll do so in the next day or so. Also I have some straightforward sample code in C. Hope That Beats The Subject Completely To Death, Mike Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development

Using Myst Online

2014-11-18 Thread Michael
Is anyone able to get myst online to work in 10.9 or 10.10? I have managed to get the port to install and set up (running 10.9), but after the game connects, downloads patches and updates, UruLive will proceed to give me an error, Access Violation, and 14 hex numbers of call stack. (gads, I'm

Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Michael
I'd like to know what VM's are able to run OS X, and how well. First, being able to run 10.6 as a guest -- it's my understanding that this was technically possible, but restricted by the license, and the main VM's check for and refuse to run this. (Sniff ... PPC programs ... photoshop elements,

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Crawford
to have another taking up space. Parallels offers a free demo, I'll give that a try sometime soon. Does VMWare? Mike Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Mon, Nov 17, 2014

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Crawford
soon. I'll also try both Parallels and VMWare. I used to use Parallels quite a bit - I really liked it. I've never used VMWare. Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Mon, Nov

Re: Statically linked binaries killed by signal 9 on Yosemite

2014-11-15 Thread Michael Crawford
. Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 12:17 PM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Statically linked binaries killed by signal 9 on Yosemite

2014-11-15 Thread Michael Crawford
the drive.) I know for sure you can image a USB stick, perhaps one can image a partition as well. You can shrink your existing partitions with Disk Utility, there is also a command-line tool for that, then create a partition to image the Yosemite upgrader application into. Michael David Crawford

Re: Statically linked binaries killed by signal 9 on Yosemite

2014-11-15 Thread Michael Crawford
has always been quite clear that they do not support statically-linked binaries. I don't agree that that's the right attitude, but they _have_ always been clear that they don't support them, and they have always discouraged developers from using them. Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com

Re: Statically linked binaries killed by signal 9 on Yosemite

2014-11-15 Thread Michael
OS X has vast numbers of APIs. Some of these, while strictly speaking they may be well-documented, it can be quite difficult to actually _find_ the documentation. ... Back in the day I figured out how to talk directly to the audio driver, without going through QuickTime. It actually

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Michael Crawford
running on Systems 6 and 7, so my manager suggested I beta test the A/UX build of MacTCP, which was binary-compatible with Mac OS apps, but in reality was a wrapper around Berkeley sockets via the UNIX kernel system call interface. Back to work... :-/ Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Michael Crawford
to the UNIX folk. Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Dave Horsfall d...@horsfall.org wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Michael Crawford wrote: There's

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread Michael Crawford
in the Mediterranean. Dad waved at the sailor. The Soviet seaman put down his binoculars, carefully looked to the left and to the right, stepped into a doorway so as not to be seen by his crewmates... ... and waved back! Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-02 Thread Michael Crawford
on. But of course Apple figures everyone just uses Spotlight. :-/ I don't use Spotlight, I have grey hair, my face is getting wrinkled so I drop .tar.gzs onto USB sticks. Mike Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development

Re: Problem with Install of ImageMagick on OS X Yosemite

2014-10-27 Thread Michael Matassa
. `port search imagemagick` will show you some of the options available. You likely want to install one of the php**-imagick packages. On Oct 27, 2014, at 15:03, Michael Matassa matass...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a new user of MacPorts and ImageMagick (and, truthfully, somewhat of a PHP

Re: Yosemite upgrade

2014-10-19 Thread Michael
I've been using MacPorts since 10.6 abd with each new OSX it seemed to me less painful nuking MacPorts and running some port installs over night, than mucking endlessly with several ports, wasting time etc... So... Nuke now! ... or forever hold your pieces :-) --- Entertaining minecraft

Re: Problem with $DISPLAY

2014-10-16 Thread Michael Crawford
that definition. It depends on the filesystem - consider mounting an 8.3 FAT floppy. Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Lawrence Velázquez lar

Re: Problem with $DISPLAY

2014-10-13 Thread Michael Crawford
pursued. Michael David Crawford mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: Hi, please take your conversation off-list. We don't want

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