Hi Joerg,
On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:49, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > I'm currently in the process of a complete new install of macports > on a power book g4 running leopard 10.5.3. so not much yet to mess > things up... > > up to now I (admittedly erratically) installed in this order > > Macports (from the corresponding .dmg) > > and the packages: > > ncftp > lua > gv > > the first two went just fine. the third (`gv') aborted in the first > try > due to a failed fetch: > > ---> Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.6.0.tar.gz from http:// > fontconfig.org/release/ > > ---> Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.6.0.tar.gz from http:// > svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/fontconfig > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time > Time Current > Dload Upload Total Spent > Left Speed > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- > --:--:-- 0 > ---> Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.6.0.tar.gz from http:// > svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time > Time Current > Dload Upload Total Spent > Left Speed > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- > --:--:-- 0 > ---> Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.6.0.tar.gz from http:// > svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/fontconfig > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time > Time Current > Dload Upload Total Spent > Left Speed > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- > --:--:-- 0 > Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed > > when later simply doing a second > > port install gv > > (after first doing `port uninstall gv; port clean --all gv') > > it ran through (fetching the above suceeded now) apparently without > problems.. So it looks like there was a temporary problem with the fontconfig web site which resolved itself by the time you tried the second time. FYI: There was no need to attempt to uninstall or clean gv; MacPorts had not yet begun to do anything with gv as it was still concerned with fontconfig. (gv depends on ghostscript which depends on fontconfig). > PROBLEM: the resulting "executable" `gv' in /opt/local/bin is a > copy of the config > file /opt/local/lib/gv/GV.... > > question: my fault or a bug? /opt/local/lib/gv/GV is not a config file. It *is* the gv binary. The makefile includes a step that deliberately copies this file to / opt/local/bin/gv. > thanks, > > joerg > > > PS: the complete log of the second `port install gv' comes here: I looked at the difference between your log and what I got installing gv on my Power Mac G4 with Leopard. Pretty similar except mine has this line which yours doesn't: creating GV Curious that yours does not have this line; this is the step that copies the file from /opt/local/lib/gv/GV to /opt/local/bin/gv. Are /opt/local/bin/gv and /opt/local/lib/gv/GV text files or binary files? If text, what's in them? If binary, what happens when you try to run gv? _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users