On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:29, John B Brown wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Oct 24, 2010, at 22:46, John B Brown wrote:
>>>     The version in /opt/local/bin is 1.0.6, installed with texlive. There 
>>> is another bzip2 in /user/bin which is version 1.0.5. It was put there with 
>>> the latest combined Apple update, Mac OS 10.6.4. I'll just use rm on it. 
>>> That should fix my "bug" problems with bzip2.
>> Removing parts of Mac OS X is probably not a good idea; there may be other 
>> parts of Mac OS X that rely on bzip2 being there.
>>>     It's nice that the xcode compiler found that, or the source code was 
>>> set up to look for it. It's too bad the folk at Apple didn't use the later 
>>> version of bzip2 in their update load.
>> Perhaps Apple will update bzip to 1.0.6 in an upcoming security update.
> 
>       Would copying the bzip2 from the port tree into /usr/bin work without 
> problems?

In general it's not a good idea to replace Apple software with MacPorts 
versions, but in this particular case that's probably ok to do since it's just 
a minor version bump to fix a bug. You may want to look at "port contents 
bzip2" to see what all other files you may also want to copy / replace. 

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