proftpd port...

2013-04-23 Thread SH Development
The proftpd port is now a couple of versions behind. I have basically modified the port for my own local use to keep it up to date, but it should be updated in the tree. I have contacted the maintainer directly with no response. What is the proper way to see this gets done or take over the

Re: proftpd port...

2013-04-23 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:04 AM, SH Development listacco...@starionline.com wrote: I have contacted the maintainer directly with no response. What is the proper way to see this gets done or take over the port if it's not being updated? File an update ticket.

Re: MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

2013-04-23 Thread René J.V. Bertin
On Apr 22, 2013, at 21:23, Ned Deily wrote: That's correct. xcode-select sets the defaults that are used by several other build tools, primarily xcodebuild and xcrun but it has no effect on what is installed in system locations. If you allowed the Xcode 4.2 Yes. xcode-select is just a

Re: MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

2013-04-23 Thread Ned Deily
In article 0307d314-6374-4fbb-ac6d-7e229a5ba...@gmail.com, Rene J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 22, 2013, at 21:23, Ned Deily wrote: That's correct. xcode-select sets the defaults that are used by several other build tools, primarily xcodebuild and xcrun but it has no effect

Re: MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

2013-04-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 23, 2013, at 08:46, René J.V. Bertin wrote: I must admit I hadn't thought about universal build implications of choosing a non-Apple compiler. Curiously, the first port of which I installed a universal variant was ffmpeg, and that package cannot (easily) be built as universal by

Re: MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

2013-04-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 22, 2013, at 12:00, Chris Jones wrote: yes. and no…. other ports use the more standard 'clangXY' variant naming (to match the gccXY names). Chris-Jones-Macbook-Pro ~ port list variants:clang33 atlas @3.10.1 math/atlas root

Re: MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

2013-04-23 Thread René J.V. Bertin
On Apr 23, 2013, at 17:57, Ned Deily wrote: Out of curiosity: is gcc-4.2 the last compiler for which Apple made it possible to build it on systems where you cannot obtain the binaries directly from Apple? If so, are there any plans to provide ports of those compilers (supposing there's

How use gfortran from gcc47 port?

2013-04-23 Thread Murray Eisenberg
I've installed the port gcc47 @4.7.3. Now how do I use it to compile a FORTRAN program. E.g., suppose I have file sum.f: == program sum implicit none real a,b,s c print *, ' Type two numbers:' read *, a, b s = a + b print

git-core stalling during build

2013-04-23 Thread Lee Bast
Good day all, I've always had git-core +svn installed and running on this system immediately after every major upgrade. When I last tried to update to the 1.8.2 branch however the process stalled out during build. It doesn't fail with an error message, it simply reaches a point and then

Re: How use gfortran from gcc47 port?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, What exactly do I type at the Terminal command line to compile that, gfortran-mp-4.7 sum.f and what kind of name do I give for the output file (sum.bin or sum.cmd or what?) The above will create the default 'a.out' for you. To control that, use the -o option. cheers Chris p.s. The

Re: MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

2013-04-23 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Apr 23, 2013, at 5:02 PM, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: I saw that Apple's clang is at 4.7 or thereabouts. I guess (naively?) it'd be nice to have access to the latest Apple compiler(s) even if Apple don't support (= provide) it for older OSes. What? The Apple LLVM Compiler

Re: git-core stalling during build

2013-04-23 Thread René J.V. Bertin
On Apr 23, 2013, at 23:24, Lee Bast wrote: Good day all, I've always had git-core +svn installed and running on this system immediately after every major upgrade. When I last tried to update to the 1.8.2 branch however the process stalled out during build. It doesn't fail with an

Re: How use gfortran from gcc47 port?

2013-04-23 Thread Murray Eisenberg
Yep, sorry about the missing initial indent character. Thanks for the additional tip, about the -o option which, like invoking the compiler itself, I couldn't find in the on-line Using GNU Fortran! On Apr 23, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Chris Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: Hi, What exactly

Re: git-core stalling during build

2013-04-23 Thread Lee Bast
On Apr 23, 2013, at 1743, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know the exact command that hangs? You don't have anything in your path or otherwise accessible to the build procedure that could cause interference (say in /usr/local)? I don't see anything. Per the log, it appears

Re: git-core stalling during build

2013-04-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 23, 2013, at 16:43, René J.V. Bertin wrote: You don't have anything in your path or otherwise accessible to the build procedure that could cause interference (say in /usr/local)? MacPorts ignores your PATH; instead, it uses the value of binpath in macports.conf, specifically so that

Re: How use gfortran from gcc47 port?

2013-04-23 Thread Derek Lamb
That would be due to the first two sentences at the beginning of Chapter 2 of that document: The gfortran command supports all the options supported by the gcc command. Only options specific to GNU Fortran are documented here. If you're new to compiling, you might want to check out. The list

Re: MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

2013-04-23 Thread Clemens Lang
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:38:43PM -0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: What would be the benefit of providing a port for Apple LLVM Compiler 4.2? The benefit would be that ports that still do not build correctly with clang will also build after Xcode 4.7 has been released without llvm-gcc 4.2, and

Re: git-core stalling during build

2013-04-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 23, 2013, at 16:24, Lee Bast wrote: The last few lines before it stalls are here, full log attached: echo '# Autogenerated by git-gui Makefile' lib/tclIndex \ echo lib/tclIndex \ echo 'class.tcl' lib/tclIndex echo 'about.tcl' lib/tclIndex echo 'blame.tcl'

Re: MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

2013-04-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 23, 2013, at 17:49, Clemens Lang wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:38:43PM -0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: What would be the benefit of providing a port for Apple LLVM Compiler 4.2? The benefit would be that ports that still do not build correctly with clang will also build after

Re: MacPorts wants to install apple-gcc42 on 10.6 all of a sudden?

2013-04-23 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Apr 23, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:38:43PM -0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: What would be the benefit of providing a port for Apple LLVM Compiler 4.2? The benefit would be that ports that still do not build correctly with clang

Re: git-core stalling during build

2013-04-23 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:24:36PM -0400, Lee Bast wrote: […] however the process stalled out during build. It doesn't fail with an error message, it simply reaches a point and then stops making any progress, CPU usage goes to zero, and it'll hang there indefinitely until halted. That

Re: update log?

2013-04-23 Thread Clemens Lang
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:25:36AM -0600, Roger Pack wrote: Yes, I was just saying that in the typical case, it doesn't give you a hint as to how to get the output needed, whereas installing a package does (it would help out this novice user, at least, I basically had to ask on the ML, as you

Re: git-core stalling during build

2013-04-23 Thread Lee Bast
Doh, I've resolved this, thank you for your suggestions. Turned out to be an embarrassingly simple issue though I'm sorry to say. I was doing some other work in a root shell, and while I typically sudo install I also hadn't really thought about it one way or the other either until now,

Re: git-core stalling during build

2013-04-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 23, 2013, at 19:37, Lee Bast wrote: Turned out to be an embarrassingly simple issue though I'm sorry to say. I was doing some other work in a root shell, and while I typically sudo install I also hadn't really thought about it one way or the other either until now, since

Re: git-core stalling during build

2013-04-23 Thread Lee Bast
I agree with Clemens: all of that too sounds like http://trac.macports.org/ticket/34221 , specifically http://trac.macports.org/ticket/34221#comment:59 Yes, that does look to be exactly it. I should have mentioned I tried both your suggestion then realized my issue while testing,

difficulty updating libiconv

2013-04-23 Thread David Winsemius
Running MacOS 10.6.8 on an early 2008 MacPro. In the process of attempting to work with GNU-Octave for Andrew Ng's Coursera Machine Learning course, I am getting errors when attempting to access the help facility. The errors say my libiconv is out of date and need to be updated to version

Re: difficulty updating libiconv

2013-04-23 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 23, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Those suggested commands are given because MacPorts will not automatically clobber files that you manually placed into its domain. I'd say let MacPorts take over the files, and it will replace them with what should be properly there.

Re: difficulty updating libiconv

2013-04-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 23, 2013, at 21:40, David Winsemius wrote: Running MacOS 10.6.8 on an early 2008 MacPro. In the process of attempting to work with GNU-Octave for Andrew Ng's Coursera Machine Learning course, I am getting errors when attempting to access the help facility. The errors say my libiconv

Re: difficulty updating libiconv

2013-04-23 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: When you wrote /opt/local, did you mean /usr/local? If so, please get rid of it. Having software installed in /usr/local will interfere with MacPorts. I'm in between two authorities here. The people who maintain R expect that some of their