Re: how to install an earlier version?

2016-08-10 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Thank you. That worked exactly right for me. (vq, thanks also for your comments in my ticket.) --Jim On 2016-08-10 17:34, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: On Aug 10, 2016, at 8:30 PM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: I have the current version of a port installed. I have never had an earlier version install

lilypond configure failure

2016-08-10 Thread Lenore Horner
I’ve just done a clean install of El Capitan. I installed the texlive stuff I wanted and then tried to go on to install Lilypond. That fails. Just before failure, a window pops up saying something needs to access x11 and I can either cancel or continue. I tried cancel. I tried installing x

Re: Idea: Port Checks for Disk Space Before Compiling?

2016-08-10 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Aug 10, 2016, at 8:28 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > >> On Aug 10, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> >>> The major problem is that there is basically no way to predict how >>> much space an installation of a port from so

Re: Idea: Port Checks for Disk Space Before Compiling?

2016-08-10 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
> On Aug 10, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> The major problem is that there is basically no way to predict how >> much space an installation of a port from source might need (one might >> be able to do some heuristics based on

Re: Idea: Port Checks for Disk Space Before Compiling?

2016-08-10 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > On 10 August 2016 at 23:58, Jean-François Caron wrote: >> This keeps happening. My laptop’s hard drive has only a few (~5) gigs of >> space left, and I foolishly decide this is a good time to upgrade clang. >> Turns out clang needs inf

Re: how to install an earlier version?

2016-08-10 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Aug 10, 2016, at 8:30 PM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > I have the current version of a port installed. I have never had an > earlier version installed. But I would like to install an earlier > version now. How can I do this? https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort vq _

how to install an earlier version?

2016-08-10 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Hi, folks: I have the current version of a port installed. I have never had an earlier version installed. But I would like to install an earlier version now. How can I do this? Adding a version specifier to *port install* doesn't seem to be effective, I only get the current version. Nor doe

Re: Idea: Port Checks for Disk Space Before Compiling?

2016-08-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10 August 2016 at 23:58, Jean-François Caron wrote: > This keeps happening. My laptop’s hard drive has only a few (~5) gigs of > space left, and I foolishly decide this is a good time to upgrade clang. > Turns out clang needs infinite space (kidding) to compile, so about 30 > minutes into t

Idea: Port Checks for Disk Space Before Compiling?

2016-08-10 Thread Jean-François Caron
This keeps happening. My laptop’s hard drive has only a few (~5) gigs of space left, and I foolishly decide this is a good time to upgrade clang. Turns out clang needs infinite space (kidding) to compile, so about 30 minutes into the compilation my computer tries to warn me that the disk is ne