Re: Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

2014-05-10 Thread Jerry
On May 10, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On May 9, 2014, at 19:42, Jerry wrote: > >> Thanks, Ryan. Light testing of Octave indicates that it is currently >> working. However, at least some of the dependencies indicated in the list >> above ("Error: The following dependencies were no

Re: Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

2014-05-10 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 9, 2014, at 19:42, Jerry wrote: > Thanks, Ryan. Light testing of Octave indicates that it is currently working. > However, at least some of the dependencies indicated in the list above > ("Error: The following dependencies were not installed:...") are in fact not > installed--but some ar

Re: 'port build' is getting EPERM from access(2) on "/var/tmp"

2014-05-10 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, > Any ideas why under "port build" access(2) returns EPERM on "/var/tmp" > and how best to resolve this problem? This might be due to sandboxing used by MacPorts. See http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/port1.0/portsandbox.tcl?marks=93#L90 for the line that deals with /var/tmp.

'port build' is getting EPERM from access(2) on "/var/tmp"

2014-05-10 Thread Quentin Barnes
I'm running OS X 10.9.2 with macports 2.2.1 and hit a problem with 'port build' invoking a port's "./configure" script and having "test -w /var/tmp" fail. I modified the configure script with some debug statements and realized it was running with user "macports" and group "macports": == :info

Re: Migration question and binary question

2014-05-10 Thread Joshua Root
On 2014-5-10 00:03 , Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Joshua Root > wrote: > > Handling variants of dependencies correctly is precisely why > restore_ports.tcl exists. The lack of automatic preservation of the > requested flag is an an

MacPorts 2.3.0-rc1 now available for testing

2014-05-10 Thread Joshua Root
Source code and pkgs for MacPorts 2.3.0-rc1 are now available [1]. Testing of either of these install methods is helpful. Be prepared to encounter bugs. As always, having a recent backup would be wise. Please report any bugs that you find [2] (after first searching Trac [3], of course!) If no sho