Re: Compiling a port statically

y sound reason to do that is if you are reckless enough to expose an obsolete version of MacOS to possible sources of ShellShock attacks. Because of the versioning headaches Ryan described, adding static(ish) variants to MacPorts is asking for trouble. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.

Re: Leopard Intel compiler availability --> was Re: rebuild a package without an update

to the TenFourFox SourceForge site, amongst other things. Aha! That explains it. I was not aware that such machines existed. I thought the first Intel Minis had 2 slots that could take 1GB DIMMs. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com

Re: Leopard Intel compiler availability --> was Re: rebuild a package without an update

pdate. I'm curious about what your thinking is. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Fix for postfix not launching reliably at boot time

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.postfix.master.plist If you've persistently disabled SIP (which you really shouldn't...) you can do that as root without booting into Recovery Mode. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpyboz

Re: Why is Macports doing this?

ted by SIP on modern systems) running *as* macports, NOT any part of MacPorts running. I'm a bit surprised that LS does not recognize this as something it should pass without alerting. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com

Re: how use bash 5.0 port

ash/> if you need inspiration. I've seen that egregious hack somewhere before... -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

how NOT to use bash 5.0 port (was Re: how use bash 5.0 port)

with an ugly hack that I posted here some time back, and even replace /bin/sh with that, at least on some MacOS X versions, but I wouldn't even try that except to obliterate a bash that is still vulnerable to shellshock. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo

Re: Alternative to uninstalling and reinstalling possibly broken macports & xorg installation

server is working, "xset q" may be a more useful command than "xeyes" because xset is usually part of a package of core X utilities that are almost always present in a working X world (e.g. in MacPorts the xorg-server port depends on xinit which depends on xset.) -- Bill Col

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

t it all under my home user directory. This doesn't change the need for much of that directory tree to be writable by the user ID used to run the web server. As outlined at the link above, there are multiple ways to do that but they all amount to the web server user being able to modify essential

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

On 1 Aug 2020, at 20:09, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 7:49 PM Bill Cole wrote: ... Doing a little research, I found that the reason WP sometimes asks for ftp credentials is that it can't directly write to the plugins directory. That usually means that it also can't write

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

the port unless you have some need for the features in the latest version or are using an old version of MacOS X which has a vulnerable OpenSSH in the base system. Enable "Remote Login" in the Sharing preferences pane and you get SFTP along with it. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.co

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

admin rights. On 1 Aug2020, at 8:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org wrote: From: "Bill Cole" <mailto:macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com>> To: "MacPorts Users" <mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org>> Subject: Re: How enable ftp

Re: How enable ftp to localhost wordpress site?

/BSD/MacOS server that allows remote login supports SFTP by default. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: registry.db getting rather obese (> 600MB) and updates very slow. Anything to do?

that's being called at all... -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Login shell

either of those to be breakable by modification of a shared library installed by MacPorts. The primary reason that one should replace /bin/{bash,sh} with a newer version on older versions of MacOS X is ShellShock. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @gru

Re: samba4 error

be removed. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Pruning old Perl installs

ports, and they mostly install quite fast. (NOTE: if Mojca gives a different answer, feel free to totally ignore mine. ) -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Misbehaving mysql57-server

the explanation is MUCH simpler. Are you relying on the Finder to look in /opt/local/var/run/mysql56/? Don't. It will not show you everything. Use 'ls' instead. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Misbehaving mysql57-server

160 Mar 27 15:38 .. srwxrwxrwx 1 _mysql _mysql0 Mar 28 22:48 mysqld.sock -rw--- 1 _mysql _mysql6 Mar 28 22:48 mysqld.sock.lock -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Misbehaving mysql57-server

On 29 Mar 2020, at 17:09, Dave Horsfall wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, Bill Cole wrote: So there's a socket somewhere. To see where, try this: lsof -U -a -p $( pgrep mysqld ) Daves-MacBook-Pro:~ dave$ lsof -U -a -p $( pgrep mysqld ) lsof: no process ID specified lsof 4.89

Re: Misbehaving mysql57-server

) -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: MacPorts updates (mail-server install) apparently messing with installed configuration dates

been that one) That seems most likely. I also updated the dovecot port last week and it did not touch any config files. I've never had a need for the 'mail-server' meta-port, so I don't use it. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many

Re: Using mps-youtube

orts. It's not even a good idea to install software with both Homebrew and MacPorts on the same machine. using mps-youtube in terminal does nothing Help- please. I hope you can find help. Maybe ask on a Homebrew mailing list? Maybe read the documentation? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.co

Re: Problem with uninstall instructions

extensive instructions for dscl, and hitting tab a couple of times at a shell prompt will offer to show you a list of a few thousand available commands, assuming your shell has completion active and configured normally. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpyboz

Re: opensp fails to build ==> fix

is broken for them. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Dependency untangling riddle

o have python3.7 installed alongside python3.8, how can I find out (easily) which port(s) in the list is/are requiring python37? Get a full dependency tree: port rdeps LyX +python38 It looks to me like it comes in via both the LLVM/Clang build toolchain and ImageMagick. -- Bill

Re: possible malware in db48 port

time over this apparently pointless "detection." They owe you an explanation. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Solution (almost certainly): postfix fails to launch at boot

me have been "published" by people who haven't thought out the details carefully, but I wouldn't advise using one of those... Apple offers no useful support for macOS as a server platform aside from the shriveled remains of Server. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@ap

Re: Solution (almost certainly): postfix fails to launch at boot

be a simple solution. Not unless you symlink everything needed to trick everything else which is unaware of your MacPorts installation. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Configuring Python3 on MacOS Macports

t (1.16.293) you can use pip: port install py37-pip port select pip pip37 pip install awscli --upgrade --user -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: gdal@3.0.1_3: Argument list too long

at the ticket, is seems that in your case the command line is close to 270K and that using the default install prefix would cut about 50K from that. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

How to get action on a simple fix for dovecot2?

by the abandoned overhaul PR. I have submitted a new PR to fix the problem with 32-bit builds: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/5816 Sorry if I stepped on any toes in the process... -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many

Re: mysql57, boost and postgresql84

v1.1.x. It MAY be possible to install an old OpenSSL and fix the Portfile or write a patch to make the configure and build work, but then you'll have an obsolete PostgreSQL linked to an obsolete OpenSSL, and you really do not want that. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.or

Re: postgresql83-server - Further Woes

situated files. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: postgresql83-server - Further Woes

etectX can illuminate this for you? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Octave.app 64-bit?

source all of your ports after a major system upgrade, because even if some of the installed binaries will still run on the new system, the pre-upgrade MacPorts won't work at all. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com

Re: putty?

? Even if you really truly need the telnet options negotiation protocol, nc has a '-t' flag for that. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: LibreOffice Draw

cquired in pre-built packages from the projects themselves. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: sudo -u postgres psql

be used for running the daemon. What you should run (assuming that you have a postgres daemon up and running) is: psql -U postgres This also assumes that you've got a 'postgres' user configured for the running daemon/ -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo

Re: Installing SSH

On 10 Sep 2019, at 21:27, Andrew Udvare wrote: Also your OS should already have SSH so I'm not sure why you would need to install it from MacPorts. # /usr/bin/ssh -V OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8y 5 Feb 2013 # /opt/local/bin/ssh -V OpenSSH_7.9p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1c 28 May 2019 -- Bill Cole b

Re: dependency on correct openssl?

. The previous executables explicitly want /opt/local/lib/lib{ssl,crypto}.1.0.0.dylib and that is the only problem I'm trying to fix. Anything that *can* build with the v1.1.1 libraries should be looking for the unversioned names. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grump

Re: dependency on correct openssl?

this after updating OpenSSL: ln -s /opt/local/lib/openssl-1.0/*.1.0.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/ I'm not quite sure why that wasn't done as a part of upgrade, since there's always going to be a period of transition where some extant software still wants the old version. -- Bill Cole b

Re: Mail server install questions

y is huge, the official wiki (https://wiki.dovecot.org) is reasonably complete and up-to-date, and development is robustly led by a going commercial entity: Open-Xchange. The port needs a maintainer, but the software is far from dead. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybo

Re: LibcxxOnOlderSystems

On 29 Aug 2019, at 18:46, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: Bill Cole wrote: I successfully re-ran the LibcxxOnOlderSystems procedure last weekend and have what seems to be a working setup on an original Intel Core Duo iMac running 10.6.8. I've also just done that on mine during the last two days

Re: LibcxxOnOlderSystems

grade --enforce-variants ld64 -ld64_97 -ld64_127 -ld64_236 sudo port -v deactivate ld64-127 -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: LibcxxOnOlderSystems

I'll need to bring it back someday. I have kept 3.4 because cmake requires it, even after I've forcibly rebuilt cmake with 8.0. I had to build 5.0 because 8.0 is too picky for things I need on that machine. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpyboz

Re: [libgcc8] compile failure on i386 on 10.6 Snow

, which is distinctly neither fast not fun, especially since I'm pretty sure it would benefit from ccache, which the big beasts of that bootstrap dance ignore. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

On 24 Aug 2019, at 16:02, Bill Cole wrote: On 24 Aug 2019, at 1:22, Joshua Root wrote: It's possible that the problem will go away if you uninstall clang-3.4 and llvm-3.4. The bootstrap ports are only needed as dependencies of those, and you shouldn't need clang-3.4 any more once you've

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

3.4 and all the bootstrap packages with a clang-8 and tools that are all the products of past builds using libc++. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

On 23 Aug 2019, at 21:00, Joshua Root wrote: Bill Cole wrote: So it's that time of the month: time for a port {reclaim,selfupdate,upgrade outdated} cycle on my Snow Leopard machine, which has a stable working "LibcxxOnOlderSystems" setup. Or at least, it HAD a stab

Why does everything now want ncurses-bootstrap, which doesn't build???

nstalled and working. It's not entirely clear to me how seemingly everything ultimately ends up tryting to do that as a dependency, but apparently it is rooted in an update to clang-8.0. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Manual says "diff -uR" but macOS diff doesn't support "-R"

uld be 'r' instead of 'R' -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: telnet

machines without it (not sure of the details of versions...) The various incarnations of netcat are mostly as good or better for basic connection testing without the weird invisible protocol that gets used on port 23 (and in some versions on all connections by default.) -- Bill Cole b

Re: vi copy/paste - maybe a bit OT

does a "Edit->Copy" from its stdin, pbpaste does a "Edit->Paste" to its stdout. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: vi copy/paste - maybe a bit OT

result from searching for 'xterm alternate screen' or is there some way to get that data back when you leave full-screen mode? (is there a second output buffer that can be switched between somehow?) Yes. There's the "Show Alternate Screen/Hide Alternate Screen" commands in Terminal's

Re: perl modules

rted at -e line 1. Perl is always case-sensitive. "use DBD::mysql" should work for you. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: How to see Macports patches

libunistring' shows that there is no maintainer for the port, so if you want a patch that is not yet in a release of the upstream package added to the port, you may need to do the work yourself and put in a ticket with the patches and new Portfile. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or bill

Re: How to see Macports patches

maintained beside the Portfile in the [PORTDIR]/files/ directory, or referenced in the Portfile as additional sources (as in the Bash port.) -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://li

Is there yet a clean way to upgrade to OpenSSL 1.1.1?

to be measured in hours of aggregate downtime. Is there some approach that I'm not seeing to build against the new version while leaving services that use the old version (and spawn worker children while running) up and functional? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo

Re: ghostview gsview gsview32

)? I haven't used gsview so I can't provide a direct comparison, but there is a Ghostscript port and multiple PS/PDF viewers including mupdf and xpdf. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https

Re: Mirror unpacks distfile before sending

mand line or in the .curlrc file. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Perl not connecting to MySQL [Solved]

file1 bigsky:tmp root# cat link1 fileb -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Rust - Failed to Build

ly submit a fix. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Restarting from scratch on Snow Leopard

;mpstats" which will register your system as using 10.6 to MacPorts auditing system. Done. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Heads up: poppler won't build

of using "-p" to get past broken ports.) Well, I don't (yet) use GIMP, and I have no idea what "poppler" is, so I guess I can live with it. This is a mystifying sentence. Why would you have installed GIMP if you weren't going to use it? (Also: poppler is a PDF ren

Re: A general philosophical question about MacPorts

for MacPorts, that's great. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: A general philosophical question about MacPorts

On 20 Feb 2019, at 16:23, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:48 AM Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 16:33, Bill Cole wrote: The departure of MacPorts from Mac OS Forge as it was being wound down was announced in https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports

Re: A general philosophical question about MacPorts

gust/033405.html -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: [macports-ports] branch master updated: nrpe, nsca: remove outdated ports

) or mailstore access server (e.g. Dovecot, Cyrus.) Its adoption and use has been hampered by the fact that there's never been a generally recognized independent reference implementation that you can use with a simple entry in a .forward file. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apa

Re: port reclaim exclude build dependencies

1. You can just say no. Really. It's easy. 2. You can exercise judgment in doing a 'port setrequested' for some common dependency ports that you know you will always want (e.g. autoconf, boost, ncurses, etc.) and avoid having to save no regularly. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc

Re: Anyone running X11 apps on Mojave? [Solved]

be independent of every dynamic shared library for which a linkable static library exists. The result on the Snow Leopard machine where I hacked this up is a /bin/sh which depends only on /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib, so in an emergency single-user boot where /opt/local is unmounted or mangled,

Re: problem with reactivating ports

that 'port reclaim' performs (with prompting for each step.) or you can just do "port uninstall installed and not active" for just cleaning out inactive ports. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Availabl

Re: Failed to build Bitkeeper

On 6 Jan 2019, at 15:56, Dave Horsfall wrote: Odd... ozzie:~ dave# port upgrade -p outdated ---> Computing dependencies for bitkeeper ---> Staging bitkeeper into destroot ---> Installing bitkeeper @7.3.3_0 ---> Cleaning bitkeeper ---> Computing dependencies for

Re: port install tuntaposx fails - Mac OS MOJAVE

on Mojave. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Problem with enscript

modern world, it isn't really Apple just protecting us from ourselves, it is protecting us from a broad range of possible attacks. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: port variants

marbre$ port variants gmsh So I would not expect them to have the same variants. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Help please

there's been some press recently about China Telecom doing sketchy things with their routing to make networks paranoid. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: How Mojave-ready is MacPorts?

On 14 Nov 2018, at 4:26, Chris Jones wrote: According to EveryMac.com, MacBook6,1 supports 8GB of RAM. No futzing would be required. Apple only supports RAM configurations that were available at the time the model was sold. If 4GB modules were not available in 2009, then they would not claim

Re: gegl issue when doing rev-update

On 12 Nov 2018, at 12:24, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users wrote: [...] however… when it ends it says: ---> Uninstalling curl-ca-bundle @7.61.1_3 ---> Building list of distfiles still in use [] 86.8 %Warning: All compilers are either

Re: gegl issue when doing rev-update

On 12 Nov 2018, at 8:57, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users wrote: Hi, On 2018-11-09 18:43:56 +0100 Ken Cunningham wrote: openexr was updated a few days ago the new library version is /opt/local/lib/libIlmImf-2_3.24.dylib it looks like gegl (gegl-0.2) is gone now. Not sure where or

Re: How Mojave-ready is MacPorts?

On 10 Nov 2018, at 16:02, Dave Horsfall wrote: OK, I've been talked out of trying Mojave on this thing (it's unlikely to work) Indeed. https://support.apple.com/kb/SP777?locale=en_US says it definitely won't. -- Bill Cole

Re: Updating ffmpeg ...

version 2.9.0, library version 165.0.0.) -- Bill Cole

Re: how make python37 the binary called by "python"

xecutable path cache in bash. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Mojave port install p5.26-mail-clamav fails

ports.org/#project.tickets <https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets> to report a bug. If you cannot find a ticket, create one. Chris -- Bill Cole

Re: no longer quite OT

of obscure and obsolete crypto algorithms. 2. Uses a different default config (/opt/local/etc/ssh/ssh_config) which may vary from Apple's defaults. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steadier W

Re: inetutils permissions?

unprepared for, because it assumes that the only way 'install' can fail is a permissions problem. I've just submitted a bug to the GNU inetutils maintainer. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steadier

Re: port abcl fails to build...

On 9 Jun 2018, at 9:44 (-0400), Carlo Tambuatco wrote: Not sure what else to say here. Recently upgraded to Java 10 a few days ago and now abcl fails to build. Java 9 broke abcl and I would not expect it to work any better on Java 10. See https://abcl.org/trac/ticket/423 -- Bill Cole b

Re: OpenOffice available?

w features, OpenOffice is still maybe a better choice. (and no, I'm not an Apache shill. I have an apache.org address because I'm a contributor & PMC member on the SpamAssassin project. I wouldn't touch the AOO code with someone else's 10-foot pole.) -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@a

Re: OpenOffice available?

On 11 May 2018, at 10:01, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Is there a port of OpenOffice available for the Mac? http://bfy.tw/I5I1 (Shorter answer: Yes, but not in MacPorts because that would be silly...)

Re: Amavisd-new fails start after downgrading to perl 5.24

:11:53.772 [15977] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 1 That should have produced MUCH more output. The fact that sa-update exited with code 1 means that it failed. The reason for that will be in its other output. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: upgrading Macports - mpstats @0.1.6

ctive. "port upgrade outdated” does not update mpstats. Run 'port installed mpstats*' for the illuminating facts. You probably have both an active installation of the current version in addition to the outdated inactive one that MacPorts is offering to erase. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.co

Re: Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

On 21 Mar 2018, at 14:23, miniupnp wrote: On the other hand, it is also fun to read message about someone afraid of his hardware burned by a hours long macports build  :) This is a serious concern. I've had 3 Macs (Cube, G5 iMac, MacBook) that got worse at heat dissipation over time to the

Re: Did anyone else's Perl 5.26 suddenly break?

to almost never over that time. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: QGIS and GRASS 7.4.0

but grass74 support didn't get done until 2017-11-18. I have found that opening tickets for updates to existing ports is useful for getting updates done. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking

Re: gnome-terminal

On 9 Feb 2018, at 1:46 (-0500), James Linder wrote: Terminal is a pretty good replacement except it askes stupid questions every time I suhtdown (everyday). Also irritating! Easily turned off or adjusted: Preferences->Profiles->Default->Shell -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com

Re: what version of OpenGL is in mesa?

matter I needed to find the definitive answer. Sorry for coming across so grumpy, it's a known bug... FWIW, if you need to dive deeper into that compatibility tangle, this site may help: https://mesamatrix.net -- Steve On 1/26/18, 9:19 PM, "macports-users on behalf of Bill Cole"

Re: what version of OpenGL is in mesa?

that this is either a vtk bug or a limitation of the underlying driver. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

problem generally on SL is the trickle of creeping C++11 dependencies that have made it essentially mandatory to do this: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/LibcxxOnOlderSystems and then hack around breakage in ports like lz4 that blindly ignore the MacPorts tweaks that can allow them to build. -- Bill

Re: can macports be less strict with aux packages download?

wly and even many core modules are maintained independently such that updated versions can be installed on "end of life" Perl versions. This is intrinsically difficult to fit into a package management system using an orthodox conceptual model of versions and dependencies. -- Bill Cole b...@s

Re: scp ignores case in filenames?

On 19 Jan 2018, at 11:09, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: On Jan 19, 2018, at 09:53, db wrote: [...] But since this is MacPorts, I wonder if anyone has had problems specifically with a port not working and crashing. At a mere guess, I'd say there'd be very little of that.

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