Re: MacPorts has stopped running

I managed to achieve something similar the other day by creating a .bash_profile which then got read instead of my .profile that had my MacPorts path changes. Once I moved the things I wanted from .bash_profile to .profile, deleted .bash_profile and opened a new terminal window, port was back.

binary packages for 10.5.8

How far back are the MacOS releases supported with binary packages? I am currently installing SoX on 10.5.8, and it seems each and every dependency (including apple-gcc42 for some reason) has to be built form source. Jan

Re: MacPorts has stopped running

On Jan 14, 2018, at 9:13 AM, Lenore Horner wrote: > > I managed to achieve something similar the other day by creating a > .bash_profile which then got read instead of my .profile that had my MacPorts > path changes. Once I moved the things I wanted from

Fwd: MacPorts has stopped running

Forwarding to the macports-users list. First check whether /opt/local/bin actually ends up being in your PATH by running 'echo $PATH' in your shell. --- Begin Message --- I sorry to send this question to you directly but my Macports question seems not to fit into the unusual cases so I’m not

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

On Jan 14 10:40:23, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: > PPC or Intel ? > A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel Ah, right, my machine is Intel. Thanks. Jan

Re: binary packages for 10.5.8

Hi Jan, Jan Stary wrote: PPC or Intel ? A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel Ah, right, my machine is Intel. Thanks. most stuff works fine on 10.5 and I an happy with that OS which is faster than 10.6 if you have 32bit intel CPUs (if you have 64bit, indeed, 10.6 is a recommendable

10.13.2 supplemental update & root account

!!! WARNING !!! The 10.13.2 supplemental update in-activates the root account if enabled Luckily, on the machines I've updated, I also had a normal admin account, so no big deal ; but I also have a machine with no normal admin account, so if it does that on that one also, it'll be a hell of a

/usr/libexec/path_helper problem

I'm having problems with /usr/libexec/path_helper on some of my machines & I've been completely unable to discover what it is that's going wrong :-( Now, as part of my install process of MacPorts I'm doing this : # setup the system paths ('paths') mkdir -p /etc/paths.d

Re: 10.13.2 supplemental update & root account

On Jan 15 02:26:31, macint...@mathiesen.info wrote: > !!! WARNING !!! > > The 10.13.2 supplemental update in-activates the root account if enabled > Luckily, on the machines I've updated, I also had a normal admin > account, so no big deal ; but I also have a machine with no normal admin >