Re: InsightToolKit did not build

2010-01-28 Thread Darren Weber
Part of the build is the documentation installation, which is easily turned off with "-doc". If you also turn off the python wrapping, using "-py25", that should disable both shared libs and the extra wrapping builds. (I've never tested the build with that config.) If you do want shared libs, wi

Re: HDF5 dilemma

2009-11-07 Thread Darren Weber
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Darren Weber wrote: > > I've got a hdf5 dilemma ;-) > > $ port installed hdf5* > The following ports are currently installed: > hdf5 @1.6.9_0+threadsafe (active) > hdf5-18 @1.8.3_0 > hdf5-18 @1.8.3_1 > > $

HDF5 dilemma

2009-11-07 Thread Darren Weber
I've got a hdf5 dilemma ;-) $ port installed hdf5* The following ports are currently installed: hdf5 @1.6.9_0+threadsafe (active) hdf5-18 @1.8.3_0 hdf5-18 @1.8.3_1 $ sudo port activate hdf5-18 @1.8.3_1 ---> Activating hdf5-18 @1.8.3_1 Error: port activate failed: Image error: /opt/local/bi

port inactive - not really inactive?

2009-11-07 Thread Darren Weber
What's an explanation for this apparent anomaly: $ port echo inactive binutils @2.20_0 g95@0.91_1+darwin_9 gnupg @1.4.10_0 gnutar @1.22_0 hdf5-18@1.8.3_0 hdf5-18

Re: how to remove distfiles etc. (short of disk space on a laptop)

2009-11-07 Thread Darren Weber
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Jochen Küpper < kuepper.joc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 06.11.2009, at 19:30, Darren Weber wrote: > > We have a laptop that is very short on disk space. There is a bunch of >> stuff lying around in: >> > > It would be a sta

X11 flicker (using imagemagick::animate)

2009-11-04 Thread Darren Weber
Does anyone see a lot of flicker and poor interaction behavior when using the animate tool from ImageMagick? It's almost useless on 10.5.8, with XQuartz 2.4.0. It looks like ImageMagick builds against MacPorts X11 libs, not the XQuartz installation: $ otool -L /opt/local/bin/animate /opt/local/b

suggestion for 'port outdated' to print a dependency tree

2009-10-13 Thread Darren Weber
Is it possible to get a txt-based listing of the dependency tree from 'port outdated'? Regards, Darren ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

Re: cvs2svn dependencies

2009-10-08 Thread Darren Weber
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Darren Weber wrote: > >> With reference to this page: >> http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html >> >> There are various run-time dependencies indicated under the title of >&g

cvs2svn dependencies

2009-10-08 Thread Darren Weber
With reference to this page: http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html There are various run-time dependencies indicated under the title of "Requirements". Are any of these included as dependencies in the MacPorts cvs2svn port? (I don't see any.) Also, is it possible to have a symlink or hardlink:

Re: location of hdf5 header files

2009-10-08 Thread Darren Weber
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Jochen Küpper < kuepper.joc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 08.10.2009, at 21:46, Darren Weber wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt >> wrote: >> On Oct 8, 2009, at 13:37, Darren Weber wrote: >> >> In cu

Re: location of hdf5 header files

2009-10-08 Thread Darren Weber
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Oct 8, 2009, at 13:37, Darren Weber wrote: > > In cursory exploration of /opt/local/include/, it appears that many, if >> not all, of the hdf5 header files are located at the root of >> /opt/local/include/. Is that a

location of hdf5 header files

2009-10-08 Thread Darren Weber
In cursory exploration of /opt/local/include/, it appears that many, if not all, of the hdf5 header files are located at the root of /opt/local/include/. Is that a mistake? Should the hdf5 include files get stored into something like /opt/local/include/hdf5/? Take care, Darren __

vtk-devel updated to 5.4.2

2009-10-05 Thread Darren Weber
The port for vtk-devel has been updated to ver 5.4.2 (it may take a few hours to propagate this svn update into the rsync distribution). This update builds and installs using 'sudo port install vtk-devel +huge'. (This updated version was only tested on Leopard.) The port now uses PostgreSQL 8.4 i

port upgrade outdated - stops at build failure on doxygen

2009-10-02 Thread Darren Weber
First, a general question about how the outdated ports are sorted - are they sorted alphabetically or is there a dependency heirarchy (or tree) that is searched to identify the order for upgrade? Now, is it possible to have 'port update outdated' continue after a build failure? Below is an exampl

Re: [MacPorts] #20773: Add zope2.10

2009-09-08 Thread Darren Weber
:57 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Sep 8, 2009, at 14:53, Darren Weber wrote: > > I'm curious about using Plone, which is currently at version 3.3. I've >> downloaded the "unified installer" from http://plone.org/products/plone and >> I'll take a l

Re: [MacPorts] #20773: Add zope2.10

2009-09-08 Thread Darren Weber
I'm curious about using Plone, which is currently at version 3.3. I've downloaded the "unified installer" from http://plone.org/products/plone and I'll take a look at the content of that package to see what the latest dependencies are (most likely they are satisfied by some MacPorts). However, it

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-18 Thread Darren Weber
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jun 15, 2009, at 17:05, Darren Weber wrote: > > MacPorts doesn't include a command to help you rebuild an entire >>> installation like this. This is unfortunate and makes it a rather involved >>> proce

Re: VTK 5.2 and GL2PS export

2009-06-18 Thread Darren Weber
I've done a bit of work on vtk-devel to make some things in the installation version specific. I have not tested whether vtk-devel can co-exist with vtk5. All the work on vtk-devel was based on the default variants (cocoa shared wrap) plus testing and examples. Nothing has been tested extensivel

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Darren Weber
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:45 AM, vincent habchi wrote: > Le 9 juin 09 à 14:32, Kurt Hillig a écrit : > > On the other hand I recently upgraded from 10.4 to 10.5 and my machine was >> horribly unstable until I blew away the MacPorts install. I'm not sure why >> this was, and I didn't have the tim

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Darren Weber
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jun 9, 2009, at 17:07, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > On Jun 9, 2009, at 13:36, Darren Weber wrote: >> >> What's the recommended series of command lines for that? >>> >> >> Here's w

Re: OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-09 Thread Darren Weber
What's the recommended series of command lines for that? Thanks! Darren On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2009-6-9 22:15, Tim Visher wrote: > > Hi Darren, > > > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Darren Weber wrote: > >> What happens

OSX Upgrades: Snow Leopard

2009-06-08 Thread Darren Weber
What happens to a MacPorts installation when we install a distribution upgrade to OSX, say Leopard to Snow Leopard? Do we need to backup the MacPorts installation, or is the ${prefix} path immune to the upgrade? What about startup items (launchd or anything that violates the mtree)? Thanks in ad

Re: GDB 6.8 via Mac Ports?

2009-06-05 Thread Darren Weber
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Re: GDB 6.8 via Mac Ports?

2009-06-05 Thread Darren Weber
Hi Kendall, I put this Portfile together in the hope that the build and install would be smooth. It's not. I'm a novice at building gdb, so I have a lot to learn about why this is failing. It may be that the automatic detection of the target architecture is wrong, it currently detects checking

What is the preferred or recommended gcc version?

2009-05-14 Thread Darren Weber
This one is not in the FAQ, yet, so here we go. Is there a general consensus, for the majority of ports without any specific build dependency, on which version of gcc is preferred or recommended for MacPorts? The following gcc variants are available: [ dwe...@x ~ ]$ gcc_select -l Available versi

Re: VTK port naming conventions

2009-04-27 Thread Darren Weber
> > I have not had enough experience with VTK to know how compatible it is >> across minor version releases. To provide flexibility, I've assumed that >> vtkXY should be sufficient to provide the major.minor (X.Y) version >> specificity for any port that depends on VTK (ie, I've not considered vt

Re: reinstalling macports

2009-04-22 Thread Darren Weber
> for f in /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/*/*/receipt.bz2; do echo -n $f && > bzcat $f | wc -l; done | grep -v ' 2$' > > > > On Apr 22, 2009, at 14:09, Rainer Müller wrote: > > Darren Weber wrote: >> >>> I've got a corrupted regis

reinstalling macports

2009-04-22 Thread Darren Weber
I've got a corrupted registry (receipts). Will reinstalling macports correct a corrupted registry? Is it possible to re-install macports from the .dmg while keeping all the ports that are installed (and registered)? How can I correct a corrupted registry, without re-installation? Thanks in adva

Re: how-to delete a registry entry?

2009-04-17 Thread Darren Weber
quot;open_entry $iname $iversion $irevision $ivariants" (procedure "registry::installed" line 13) invoked from within "registry::installed" Error: port installed failed: list must have an even number of elements No ports are installed. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at

how-to delete a registry entry?

2009-04-16 Thread Darren Weber
There is some documentation here on the macports API, including some registry functions: http://guide.macports.org/#internals.apis How is the API called? It is a tcl API, so is it loaded into tclsh? Thanks, Darren ___ macports-users mailing list macpor

uninstall works, but receipts are not updated?

2009-04-16 Thread Darren Weber
What is happening here (there is a local repository in ~/ports, but it's probably not important for this issue): [ m...@xxx ~/ports ]$ port installed | grep vtk vtk @5.2.1_0+darwin_9+examples+tclSys+testing vtk5 @5.2.0_0+darwin_9+examples+shared+tclSys+testing vtk5 @5.2.0_0+darwin_9+examples

Re: VTK port naming conventions

2009-04-15 Thread Darren Weber
Proposed summary: Where possible, do not use (eg: vtk54), rather should be the latest STABLE version (eg: the port named 'vtk' should contain 5.2.x at the time of this writing). Any version of a port that is near the cutting edge must have the -devel suffix on the port name (eg, vtk-devel shoul

Re: VTK port naming conventions

2009-04-14 Thread Darren Weber
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > This is really more of a development question and not a usage question so > macports-dev may be a better place to continue this. > > > On Apr 14, 2009, at 12:55, Darren Weber wrote: > > I agree with Ryan, that separa

Re: VTK port naming conventions

2009-04-14 Thread Darren Weber
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, wrote: > On Monday, April 13, 2009, at 04:49PM, "Darren Weber" < > dwe...@macports.org> wrote: > >This is a thread to discuss naming conventions for VTK in macports. > > > >Macports has the following VTK ports (as of

Re: VTK port naming conventions

2009-04-14 Thread Darren Weber
at 16:52, css...@mac.com wrote: > > On Monday, April 13, 2009, at 04:49PM, Darren Weber wrote: >> >> This is a thread to discuss naming conventions for VTK in macports. >>> >>> Macports has the following VTK ports (as of 04/13/2009): >>>

VTK port naming conventions

2009-04-13 Thread Darren Weber
This is a thread to discuss naming conventions for VTK in macports. Macports has the following VTK ports (as of 04/13/2009): VTK @4.4.2 (graphics) 3D visualization toolkit vtk5 @5.2.1 (graphics, devel) 3D visualization toolkit In the Debian distribution, there are quite a few packages,

Re: sysadmin: is there a manifesto on environment settings for macports?

2009-04-10 Thread Darren Weber
better way to get it right. For me, the bigger picture is creating an open-source scientific application that will depend on VTK, among other libraries, and macports may provide the foundation for the distribution process on OSX. Best, Darren On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Rainer Müller wro

sysadmin: is there a manifesto on environment settings for macports?

2009-04-09 Thread Darren Weber
Is there a general manifesto on how to configure OSX for macports? I see the following documents online, but they don't answer all my questions for macports: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ http://trac.macports.org/wiki/InstallingMacPorts The installation of macports proposes a user-specific en

new milestone: Port Binaries

2009-03-30 Thread Darren Weber
How about a new milestone for trac: binary distributions? I guess most of this would focus on mpab and adaptations to port to enable binary installations. Take care, Darren ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists

Re: dbus and launchd spinning out of control

2009-03-28 Thread Darren Weber
local/bin/dbus-daemon --nofork --session Sockets unix_domain_listener SecureSocketWithKey DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Darren Weber wrote: > > I've only just noticed my

dbus and launchd spinning out of control

2009-03-28 Thread Darren Weber
I've only just noticed my Utilities -> Console log and it contains streams of the following messages: 3/28/09 3:11:03 PM org.macports.dbus[20573] Failed to start message bus: The pid file "/opt/local/var/run/dbus/pid" exists, if the message bus is not running, remove this file 3/28/09 3:11:03 PM c

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-27 Thread Darren Weber
Mar 26, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 26, 2009, at 17:51, Darren Weber wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Dave Howell wrote: >> >> On Mar 23, 2009, at 0:38 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> Before we can allow arbitrary users to su

Re: Install from Binary Archives (was Re: port install efficiency issue)

2009-03-26 Thread Darren Weber
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: > Dave Howell wrote: > > What about this: I do a "ports install widget", ports looks for a > > binary, doesn't find one that matches (in this case, the default > > options and current version), so it goes about building it. When it's > > done,

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-26 Thread Darren Weber
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Dave Howell wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2009, at 0:38 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > >> Before we can allow arbitrary users to submit their builds to a central >> server, we would need to ensure that a build that occurs on one user's >> system is *identical* to the build on a

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-26 Thread Darren Weber
c from build systems and replying just to the > original question] > > 2009/3/22 Darren Weber : > > > > I've noticed problems during port upgrades. > > > > What is the general consensus on having a TAG for each port to indicate > it's > > "s

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-25 Thread Darren Weber
, Shreevatsa R wrote: > [Changing the topic from build systems and replying just to the > original question] > > 2009/3/22 Darren Weber : > > > > I've noticed problems during port upgrades. > > > > What is the general consensus on having a TAG for each p

Re: port install efficiency issue

2009-03-23 Thread Darren Weber
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > Darren Weber wrote: > > when I look at a Portfile, I also take a little time to check out > > darwinports and Debian packages to learn something about how these > > software are built and distributed. > > I'm

Re: compile farm?

2009-03-23 Thread Darren Weber
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: > Darren Weber wrote: > > This suggestion may be too complicated, but it's a thought. Suppose it is >> possible to create a "virtual machine" or some kind of encapsulated "clean >> environme

Re: port install efficiency issue

2009-03-23 Thread Darren Weber
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Mar 22, 2009, at 13:19, Darren Weber wrote: > > On balance, I'm both impressed and disappointed with the complexity of the >> macports system to date. For example, dependency resolution needs a lot of >>

Re: compile farm?

2009-03-23 Thread Darren Weber
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 23, 2009, at 01:11, Darren Weber wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: >> >> Darren Weber wrote: >>> >>> > Is it possible to use the sourceforge compile farm to

Re: compile farm?

2009-03-22 Thread Darren Weber
An Xgrid system? On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: > Darren Weber wrote: > > > > Is it possible to use the sourceforge compile farm to provide binary > > distros for macports? > > The sourceforge compile farm does not exist any more for at least

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-22 Thread Darren Weber
. Take care, Darren On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > Darren Weber wrote: > > > > I've noticed problems during port upgrades. > > > > What is the general consensus on having a TAG for each port to indicate > > it's "success&q

Re: port install efficiency issue

2009-03-22 Thread Darren Weber
Is it possible to create a distributed build system that uses Xgrid, to allow all macport users the option of adding their machine to a distributed macports build system? In effect, every time anybody on this grid has to build a package from source, some kind of meta-package monitor can detect whe

Re: compile farm?

2009-03-22 Thread Darren Weber
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Darren Weber wrote: > > Is it possible to use the sourceforge compile farm to provide binary > distros for macports? > > Perhaps cdash or something like it could be used? FYI: > http://www.cdash.org/ > > Take care, Darren > > P

compile farm?

2009-03-22 Thread Darren Weber
Is it possible to use the sourceforge compile farm to provide binary distros for macports? Perhaps cdash or something like it could be used? FYI: http://www.cdash.org/ Take care, Darren PS, I assume GNU savanna is not available for anything that depends on OSX (but does it also exclude BSD - da

stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-22 Thread Darren Weber
I've noticed problems during port upgrades. What is the general consensus on having a TAG for each port to indicate it's "success" status within the system? Is it possible to have a meta-port monitor that automatically tracks the status of each package install and reports that status back to a ce

Re: port install efficiency issue

2009-03-22 Thread Darren Weber
2009/3/22 Frank J. R. Hanstick > Hello, > Wouldn't it be better and faster to do the check at request time rather > than wait until everything has been done and then request if an update is > wanted rather than an install? > Frank > Yes, sounds reasonable. Also, my apologies! Macports is grea

port install efficiency issue

2009-03-21 Thread Darren Weber
What is up with port? It just ran for about 15 mins to build a package that is already installed. If I were to work on the same damn thing, repeating it all day, day after day, I would get the sack pretty quickly. Just think of the useless load on the network and the servers for all those futile

libIce conflict between xorg-libice and ice-cpp

2009-01-30 Thread Darren Weber
Seems to be a conflict between xorg and ice-cpp over libice, eg: [ dwe...@elegans ~ ]$ sudo port install ice-cpp Password: ---> Fetching ice-cpp Error: No defined site for tag: mcpp, using master_sites ---> Attempting to fetch protobuf-patch-0.1.0.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/ice-cpp --

What's up with trac?

2009-01-30 Thread Darren Weber
Just tried to access http://trac.macports.org/newticket It returns rubbish - what's up? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

macports stages - how to stop server processes?

2008-10-20 Thread Darren Weber
RE: http://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases Can we define phases for deactivate and uninstall? For example, postgresql83-server is left running after doing uninstall. There should be an option to take down and remove any config data for a server process during the deactivate and uninstall pha

Re: daemondo with postgresql83-server

2008-10-20 Thread Darren Weber
ation. Best, Darren On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Daniel J. Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 17, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Darren Weber wrote: > >> Is it possible to use startupitem.execute for postgresql83? >> > > Yes. > > The script wrapper simply cont

daemondo with postgresql83-server

2008-10-17 Thread Darren Weber
I'm playing with a sandbox version of postgresql83-server and it contains the following startup config: set libdir ${prefix}/lib/postgresql83 set logdir ${prefix}/var/log/postgresql83 set dbdir ${prefix}/var/db/postgresql83/defaultdb set

Is there a print CSS for macports guide?

2008-10-14 Thread Darren Weber
Does anyone have a CSS for printing the macports guide? I assume the web-page(s) for the guide are displayed with CSS controls. Can we get rid of the navigation (div?) and have the main content (div?) spread over the full-width of the page when printing? It should be easy to copy the screen CSS

Port fails to install as image. Problem with cleaning the registry.

2008-10-13 Thread Darren Weber
I have a sandbox for some ports, including postgresql83-server (see attached) and I've got some issues with my installation. I'm curious about why the 'port clean --all ' doesn't remove the registry entry? Here's a terminal session where I incur an issue with the registry and my port fails to inst

Re: ruby - pg

2008-10-10 Thread Darren Weber
I've thrown together a new Portfile for ruby-pg, but I don't have the expertise to test it and debug it. I've put up a ticket for it at http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16814 Can someone with ruby experience get this working? It could be called from rb-dbi as a new variant that works with postgre

Re: ruby - pg

2008-10-10 Thread Darren Weber
Hi Tom, I'm playing around with the postgresql83 port (it's not my port, but I want to tweak a few things for it, so I have a copy of it in my private port repository). For postgresql 8.3.4, there is no build configure option to enable ruby (as there is for perl, python, tcl), but there is a port

Re: macports and Xcode

2008-10-10 Thread Darren Weber
As a guess, the macports installation process could include a) tcl b) a build system port (bootstrapped) to replace Xcode distributions Darren On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Bryan Blackburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:16:08PM -0700, rhubbell said: >> Hello all, >> >>

Re: list element in braces followed by "}" instead of space

2008-09-22 Thread Darren Weber
fully tested for functional integrity against the postgresql83 port. I've not had time to configure and run the functional tests. Thanks! On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 22, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Darren Weber wrote: > >> I have a

Re: list element in braces followed by "}" instead of space

2008-09-22 Thread Darren Weber
invoked from within "registry::installed" Error: port installed failed: list element in braces followed by "}" instead of space No ports are installed. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Darren Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a local port repository under m

list element in braces followed by "}" instead of space

2008-09-22 Thread Darren Weber
I have a local port repository under my home path where I am testing a new port for libpqxx (see attached). When I try to install this port, I get the following: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/ports ]$ sudo port install libpqxx Password: Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state. --->