On 11 May 2007, at 06:02, Jann Röder wrote:
I just found something interesting in Mac/OSX/Dist/build :
# If the filesystem is case-sensitive then "python" will be built, but
# some parts of the install expect "python.exe which is what is built
# on a case-insensitive filesystem. Make a link j
Agreed! I don't have the time nor the experience to lead any sort of
organized documentation effort but I'd be happy to help out where I
can. Is this something that can be done by committee? Or, better
yet, wild, wild west style? It is a Wiki afterall :)
I just found something interesting in Mac/OSX/Dist/build :
# If the filesystem is case-sensitive then "python" will be built, but
# some parts of the install expect "python.exe which is what is built
# on a case-insensitive filesystem. Make a link just in case it is
# needed.
if [ ! -e python.exe
On May 9, 2007, at 20:47, George A. Dowding wrote:
I would like to install mediawiki using postgresql rather than
mysql. At one time there was some useful documentation on creating
a local port tree as well as guidance on writing a portfile. It
seems that the site http://darwinports.opend
On May 10, 2007, at 4:18 PM, James Berry wrote:
Hey Jochen,
If you've submitted a few ports and have had no uptake it's
probably because others are either busy and/or uninterested in
those ports. I'd encourage you to apply for a commit bit in such a
case, if you're interested in maintain
Hi George,
I would like to install mediawiki using postgresql rather than
mysql. At one time there was some useful documentation on creating
a local port tree as well as guidance on writing a portfile. It
seems that the site http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ that had the
documentation i
On May 10, 2007, at 1:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, the title is a bit of a lie; the port succeeds in building
and installing.
I'm working on a new port for transcode [1] and am running into a
problem. The port will be pulling HEAD from cvs so I am fully aware
that the problem I
On 11/05/2007, at 09:15, James Berry wrote:
Volunteers?
I definitely want to help with this (as James might remember from my
commit rights application :-). I should have enough free time to
help lead the project in two or three months, if proves to be
necessary, but unfortunately can't
Hi Jochen,
What's about previous Portfiles I have added there - how often
should I bug whom?
You should also manually add to the Cc: field the email address of
whomever you've assigned the bug to, as documented in TracTicketing
on the wiki [1] (although that may not work for macports-dev@
On May 10, 2007, at 18:12, Jochen Küpper wrote:
I have now tested and uploaded the Portfile and patch to the Trac
system.
Is there anything I should do in order to get the port included?
I have committed your port. Thanks for contributing. I didn't test
installing it, since it requires qt4
On May 10, 2007, at 18:15, James Berry wrote:
- We really need a nicely designed front-presence that describes
the project and gives access to ports and documentation. Our
current front end does those things only marginally.
I've been thinking about this for awhile. I haven't fired up
P
On May 10, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Stuart Robertson wrote:
"/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_
dports_lang_python24/work/Python-2.4.3"
Well, for one thing, you should be at python 2.4.4, not 2.4.3. Might
be worth running "port s
On May 10, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Diane White wrote:
Please excuse me, but what exactly is MacPorts? How does it work?
Is it
really what I want to use? I found Mac Ports through looking at
another
program called Jailkit, and there was another website (the
predecessor to
MacPorts?) called
On May 10, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Jochen Küpper wrote:
Hi Ryan,
again, thanks for your help, it works ;-)
You don't need to specify the directory name; MacPorts knows it's
going to be in the files directory. Also, your patchfile name
should begin with "patch-" and end with ".diff", between whi
On May 10, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
If there isn't, there should really be a Wiki page with all
Portfile variables. Just the names would already be helpful,
although it should obviously contain an explanation in the end.
The documentation used to have that, or at least most of
Hi Ryan,
again, thanks for your help, it works ;-)
You don't need to specify the directory name; MacPorts knows it's
going to be in the files directory. Also, your patchfile name
should begin with "patch-" and end with ".diff", between which
should be the name of the file that's being patc
What happens if you edit the pdftk portfile and change the dependency to
gcc 4.2? Does it work with pdftk?
Mark
Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 2:10
PM -0800 wrote:
>> on my Intel-MacBook I want to install pdftk, which needs gcc41.
>> Installing gcc41 made no prob
On May 10, 2007, at 17:31, Jochen Küpper wrote:
Okay guys, I do have another question: How can I use local patch-
files? I have put them in the local files/ directory, but port
still tries to fetch them:
> sudo port install
---> Fetching qwt
---> Attempting to fetch files/qwtconfig.pri fro
On May 10, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
If there isn't, there should really be a Wiki page with all
Portfile variables. Just the names would already be helpful,
although it should obviously contain an explanation in the end.
The documentation used to have that, or at least most of t
On May 10, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Jochen Küpper wrote:
Okay guys, I do have another question: How can I use local patch-
files? I have put them in the local files/ directory, but port
still tries to fetch them:
It should look for them in files first, and attempt to fetch them if
it can't find th
On May 10, 2007, at 17:07, Jochen Küpper wrote:
On 10.05.2007, at 23:21, Elias Pipping wrote:
by default configure.pre_args contains only the
--prefix parameter, so clearing the variable
completely would work, too:
configure.pre_args
Yes, it seems to work.
On May 10, 2007, at 11:06 PM,
On 10 May 2007, at 21:14, paul beard wrote:
On May 10, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Stuart Robertson wrote:
Above this message are approx. 220 lines which mostly include
'Python/mactoolboxglue.c:456: warning: return makes integer from
pointer without a cast'. I'm guessing that the problem is
some
On 11.05.2007, at 00:07, Jochen Küpper wrote:
Where can one learn about all this stuff?
Okay guys, I do have another question: How can I use local patch-
files? I have put them in the local files/ directory, but port still
tries to fetch them:
> sudo port install
---> Fetching qwt
--->
On 10.05.2007, at 23:56, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
And Python isn't installed everywhere.
Well, that's not my experience. It's even on all number crunchers and
big iron machines I have used over the last years, as scheduling/
batch systems also use it;)
And it's a fabulous matlab replacement f
Thanks Ryan, Elias!
On 10.05.2007, at 23:21, Elias Pipping wrote:
by default configure.pre_args contains only the
--prefix parameter, so clearing the variable
completely would work, too:
configure.pre_args
Yes, it seems to work.
On May 10, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
MacPorts
On 2007-05-10 23:19:50 +0200, Jochen Küpper wrote:
> On 10.05.2007, at 16:25, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
>> I think that it is a better idea to use Perl instead of shell scripts if
>> you want portable scripts.
>
> or Python (my personal favorite;), or ...
I've seen many problems after Python upgra
So on my system that can build python2.4, I have a python.exe file.
On the other system, I do not: I just have python (no extension) but
they are the same file, same size and everything.
tichy:/opt/local paul$ /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwi
On May 10, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote:
Somebody wants a python.exe...
make a link to python in the same directory and see what that gets
you. I think that resolves it, though why it happens in the first
place is a mystery.
--
Paul Beard
words: http://paulbeard.org/wordpress
p
On 10.05.2007, at 16:25, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
I think that it is a better idea to use Perl instead of shell
scripts if you want portable scripts.
or Python (my personal favorite;), or ...
Anyhow, what's happening during an perl (python, ...) update?
Greetings,
Jochen
--
Einigkeit und Rech
by default configure.pre_args contains only the
--prefix parameter, so clearing the variable
completely would work, too:
configure.pre_args
Regards,
Elias
On May 10, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On May 10, 2007, at 15:37, Jochen Küpper wrote:
I am rtrying to write a Portfile fo
Hi,
paul beard wrote:
>
> can you send lines more toward the end of the message so we can see
> where it failed? Those warnings don't mean anything: you should have
> something much more explicit just before the process exits.
Sorry to jump in, but just had the same issue five minutes ago. The
On May 10, 2007, at 05:27, Eckhard Wiemann wrote:
on my Intel-MacBook I want to install pdftk, which needs gcc41.
Installing gcc41 made no problems, but at the end pdftk fails to
build.
Error:
Target com.apple.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/
db/dports/build/
_opt_loc
On May 10, 2007, at 15:37, Jochen Küpper wrote:
I am rtrying to write a Portfile for Qwt, which is not build using
autotools, but uses Qt's qmake + make combo.
I think I have everything set, but a --preix option thst is still
passed to qmake. I am trying to remove that using
configure.ar
On May 9, 2007, at 7:47 PM, Jann Röder wrote:
Which version of Mac OS X are you using ? Does it work
if you uninstall the python port first (with the -f flag) and then try
to install the new version ?
I ended up by building an mpkg on a different machine and installing
that. Not sure what w
Hi,
I am rtrying to write a Portfile for Qwt, which is not build using
autotools, but uses Qt's qmake + make combo.
I think I have everything set, but a --preix option thst is still
passed to qmake. I am trying to remove that using
configure.args-delete --prefix=${prefix}
but apparentl
On May 10, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Stuart Robertson wrote:
Above this message are approx. 220 lines which mostly include
'Python/mactoolboxglue.c:456: warning: return makes integer from
pointer without a cast'. I'm guessing that the problem is something
to do with the commands used when trying
I want to install either rdiff or unison or duplicity in order to
have incremental off-site backups. Each of these ports fails when
python24 fails to build with the following error message at the mac
os x command line:
Warning: the following items did not execute (for python24):
com.apple
On May 10, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Frank Wilson wrote:
I try to run self-update but I get the following error. I guess
it's not a show stopper but it would be nice if someone could help
me get it running properly. Thanks for any help!
Here's the error:
DHAVE_GMTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=1 -
10 maj 2007 kl. 20.18 skrev Diane White:
Please excuse me, but what exactly is MacPorts
It is a package manager for mac os x (with friends) if that concept
is familiar.
Basically, it automates the standard way of building software on unix.
usually, on unix you do
./configure
make
sudo ma
Diane, MacPorts... MacPorts, Diane. Okay now you're introduced. :)
MacPorts is a distribution of Unix utilities for the Macintosh, like the
Fink project. MacPorts is a framework of port files that allows the user
to download, compile, and install all the necessary dependancies for
Unix utilities (
On May 10, 2007, at 8:09 PM, Frank Wilson wrote:
I try to run self-update but I get the following error. I guess
it's not a show stopper but it would be nice if someone could help
me get it running properly. Thanks for any help!
Do you have fresh Xcode tools?
-- M. Roszka
__
Unfortunately, the Mozilla group WILL NOT SUPPORT building any of its
products on Mac OS X without using Aqua, so every single mozilla
application has to be severely hacked to make it build and/or run and/
or support linking against in an X11 environment.
If someone wants to make a new port,
Okay, the title is a bit of a lie; the port succeeds in building and installing.
I'm working on a new port for transcode [1] and am running into a problem. The
port will be pulling HEAD from cvs so I am fully aware that the problem I am
seeing right now could be related to instability in the tru
Please excuse me, but what exactly is MacPorts? How does it work? Is it
really what I want to use? I found Mac Ports through looking at another
program called Jailkit, and there was another website (the predecessor to
MacPorts?) called DarwinPorts. Unfortunately, the main page of MacPorts
does
I try to run self-update but I get the following error. I guess it's not a
show stopper but it would be nice if someone could help me get it running
properly. Thanks for any help!
Here's the error:
DarwinPorts base version 1.400 installed
Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.440
Configuring, Build
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> Why wouldn't we want to just update firefox-x11 to 2.0.0.3?
I would personally not mind it. Problem is, the current firefox-x11 does
not work (at least on Intel Macs, it is an issue somebody is working on as
far as I know) and the same goes for 2.0.0.x. SO just updating
On 10.05.2007, at 08:11, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
libtool: link: cannot find the library `' or unhandled argument
`Carbon'
This is due to the -framwork options in the .la files installed
in /opt/local/lib. Removing all /opt/local/lib/libQt*.la files
solves the problem (as documented elsew
On 2007-05-10 15:56:16 +1000, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
> I don't think you're missing anything; it looks like 1.5.0.1 is the only
> version of FireFox currently in our ports tree. If you're not up to trying
> to creating and maintaining a new port (which would be most appreciated!),
> your best b
On 2007/05/10, at 15:10, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On May 10, 2007, at 5:36 AM, Paulo Moura wrote:
there is not whitespace preceding the last "+". Therefore, it
should not confuse MacPorts. Making "+" an illegal character is
just the wrong way of fixing what seems to be a parsing bug in
MacPo
On May 10, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Paulo Moura wrote:
I'm in favor of getting the + out of your version number.
The "3.0.1+" version number is not something I control as is used
by the third-party software. This software install on a directory
named after this version number. Using a different
Hi,
Can someone please remove my account at macports.org?
My login username is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I can log in to the
account, but once there I can't stay logged in - I get logged out quite
quickly while navigating through the site.
Also, when logged in, I don't have any privileges. I can'
On 2007-05-07 12:13:43 -0700, David Liontooth wrote:
> sorry for thinking it was so unlikely this was ported that I didn't even
> look! I'll be interested to see what's included.
>
> This is very cool, as it allows my scripts to be crossplatform.
But you need to use the with_default_names variant
On May 10, 2007, at 5:36 AM, Paulo Moura wrote:
there is not whitespace preceding the last "+". Therefore, it
should not confuse MacPorts. Making "+" an illegal character is
just the wrong way of fixing what seems to be a parsing bug in
MacPorts. The only illegal characters should be the one
Hi all,
on my Intel-MacBook I want to install pdftk, which needs gcc41.
Installing gcc41 made no problems, but at the end pdftk fails to build.
Error:
Target com.apple.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/
db/dports/build/
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinpo
On 2007/05/10, at 10:02, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
James Berry has committed some changes recently that removes '+'
from the list of acceptable characters in port names (see top of
the current ChangeLog [1]). If that's not it, I'm out of ideas :-)
That change seems (from an outsider) quite arbi
On 09/05/07 18:49, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestions. Indeed, in postfix-script, everywhere (only
> three places, lines 200, 211 and 225) there was a bare "ls" I replaced it
> with "/bin/ls" and those errors then disappeared.
Ok, fine.
> I also changed the ownership of
Hi Elise,
Which variants should one choose when installing mplayer on an
Intel MacBook running OS 10.4.9? I've installed fontconfig
(pkgconfig was already installed). I'm hoping mplayer will let me
play all those videos on the BBC website that RealPlayer gives
connection errors on.
+bin
Which variants should one choose when installing mplayer on an Intel
MacBook running OS 10.4.9? I've installed fontconfig (pkgconfig was
already installed). I'm hoping mplayer will let me play all those
videos on the BBC website that RealPlayer gives connection errors on.
Elise van Looij
On May 9, 2007, at 14:29, paul beard wrote:
There is no "revision" variable in the portfile. Any ideas? Thanks,
This man page seems to contradict itself, but perhaps it's not
optional, as mentioned below.
[snip]
revision
Local revision number of Portfile. Increment for port
On May 10, 2007, at 01:28, Paulo Moura wrote:
On 2007/05/10, at 05:58, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
You wouldn't happen to be running MacPorts from ToT (a.k.a.
trunk), rather than a release version?
Nope, I'm running the latest stable one (1.440).
James Berry has committed some changes recently
On 10/05/2007, at 17:41, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Why wouldn't we want to just update firefox-x11 to 2.0.0.3?
I'd be for that, but it might take significantly more work to get
2.0.0.3 to build than it would 1.5.0.11, so we could provide the
latter in the meantime. In addition, some people mig
On May 10, 2007, at 00:56, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
Am I missing how to build a more recent version of Firefox via
MacPorts? I built firefox-x11 and that only gave me 1.5.
I don't think you're missing anything; it looks like 1.5.0.1 is the
only version of FireFox currently in our ports tree.
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