rubber dependencies

2010-08-20 Thread Michael Williams
Hi, rubber is a Python script for compiling LaTeX documents. According to its README, a manual install only requires Python 2.2 (which is of course pre-installed on OS X). It doesn't really make sense to install it on a system without TeX, of course, but that is not a strict installation

Uninstall port fails, tries to delete /Users when macports installed in $HOME

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Williams
Hi, I have installed macports 1.8.0 in $HOME/.macports as I do not have admin rights on my system. I did this by running: ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.macports --with-install-user=$USER --with- install-group=staff --with-tclpackage=~/Library/Tcl --enable-readline Everything seems to have

Re: Uninstall port fails, tries to delete /Users when macports installed in $HOME

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Williams
On 17 Sep 2009, at 00:54, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Is /Users a symlink? If so, this is: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21082 Yep, that's the one, thanks. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Re: Installing without root privileges: what about /Applications/MacPorts?

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Williams
On 14 Sep 2008, at 01:27, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I think I've successfully installed MacPorts without root privileges. I installed from source using: ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.macports --with-install-user=$USER -- with- install-group=staff --with-tclpackage=~/Library/Tcl I also prefer to

Re: Installing without root privileges: what about /Applications/MacPorts?

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Williams
On 12 Sep 2008, at 22:07, Bryan Blackburn wrote: Is there any way to change this directory to, say, ~/Applications/ MacPorts or is it hard-coded? Which source-based install are you using? Running off trunk allows you to change the location of the Applications and Frameworks install

Re: while port install gcc34...

2007-03-23 Thread Michael Williams
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:19:05PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Sorry, gcc 3 cannot be installed on Intel Macs. :-( FMI, see http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-February/001589.html. -- Mike ___ macports-users mailing list

Gnuplot cannot set terminal x11

2007-03-14 Thread Michael Williams
Hi, my installation of gnuplot on one machine (macbook) is unable to use the X11 terminal. However, what seems to be the same version of the port can use it perfectly well on another machine (ibook). Neither installation is of the no_x11 variant. macbook:~$ port installed gnuplot The

a2ps output incompatible with Adobe distiller

2007-02-27 Thread Michael Williams
Hi, as described on http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.printing.a2ps.bugs/2583, there is a bug in a2ps that makes its postscript output incompatible with Adobe's distiller (and therefore OS X's Preview.app and its printing system). e.g. do: $ sudo port install a2ps $ echo Test text test.txt

Re: gcc 3.3 fails to build: cannot exec `cc1'

2007-02-15 Thread Michael Williams
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:03:10AM +0100, Elias Pipping wrote: $gcc-3.3 -o test1 test.c $ $./test1 Hello world works just fine for me. Presumably you're running on a PPC Mac? -- Mike ___ macports-users mailing list