On Tuesday February 10 2015 21:08:18 Ian Wadham wrote: Hi Ian,
Taking this to macports-dev... As I said, my ~/.macports on my Mac appears to be unused since november 2013 or so. However, the tiny test install I have on my Linux system does contain a lot of things that appear to be copies, but also things like "home" the function of which is unclear to me. A quick check in etc/macports/macports.conf didn't reveal anything that could explain this difference. And I really have no idea what in the Qt portfiles could cause this, esp. since it clear doesn't affect my own system. It's evident that you can throw out the qt4-mac stuff. But what does `port work qt5-mac-devel` return? >>> BTW, why is all this MacPorts stuff landing in my home directory (i.e. >>> in ~/.macports)? There appears to be about 3.2 Gb of it. I really do not >> >> That's a good question. Mine is about empty and contains only old stuff, >> among which a shadow of an old install location. You should ask on the ML, >> but if you check the dates and confirm that there's nothing current going on >> in there you can >> 1) archive it to a compressed tarball >> 2) kick the tarball to oblivion if that doesn't raise any issues after a few >> days. > >Looking deeper and doing "du -s local/var/macports/build/*" in ~/.macports/opt >gives: > > 961624 > local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_site-ports_aqua_qt5-mac-devel >1233560 >local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports. > org_release_ports_aqua_qt4-mac > >That's about 2.2 Gb, without the other 1 Gb of stuff that is in ~/.macports. >Using "ll" gives: > >drwxr-xr-x 3 ianw staff 102 10 Feb 12:50 >_opt_local_site-ports_aqua_qt5-mac-devel/ >drwxr-xr-x 3 ianw staff 102 11 Aug 2011 >_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_aqua_qt4-mac/ > >The first is what we are working on. The second is a build of Qt 4 done from >source >3.5 years ago, before there was a binary package for qt4-mac --- my original >build. > >Methinks there is a problem with the original port of qt4-mac, which persists >in qt5-mac. >Please let me know what you think. > Cheers, R. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
