Re: Error installing gnuplot/aquaterm

2016-10-28 Thread James Linder
> On 29 Oct. 2016, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org > wrote: > >> I am sorry if this is a silly question, but I am trying to install gnuplot >> (I am running Mac OS Sierra, recently updated and performed the MacPorts >> migration) and am getting the error shown below. Aqu

Re: macports-users Digest, Vol 122, Issue 2

2016-10-02 Thread James Linder
>>> Over the years I?ve seen many clever people here, perchance one of them >>> will cast an eye and say THERE . . . >>> >>> I?m trying to run a rc.local at start up >>> I created a launchdaemon >>> >>> haycorn:jam root# cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/local.startup.plist >>> >>> >> "http://www.appl

Re: macports-users Digest, Vol 122, Issue 2

2016-10-02 Thread James Linder
> On 3 Oct 2016, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> Over the years I?ve seen many clever people here, perchance one of them will >> cast an eye and say THERE . . . >> >> I?m trying to run a rc.local at start up >> I created a launchdaemon >> >> haycorn:jam root

Re: OT LaunchDaemon

2016-10-01 Thread James Linder
On 2 Oct 2016, at 11:53 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 11:43 PM, James Linder wrote: > I’m trying to run a rc.local at start up > I created a launchdaemon > > Did you load it? In 10.5 the keys in the launchd plist were sufficient, but > th

OT LaunchDaemon

2016-10-01 Thread James Linder
Over the years I’ve seen many clever people here, perchance one of them will cast an eye and say THERE . . . I’m trying to run a rc.local at start up I created a launchdaemon haycorn:jam root# cat /Library/LaunchDaemons/local.startup.plist http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>

Re: WebKit2-GTK: quartz VS XQuartz

2016-05-08 Thread James Linder
> On 9 May 2016, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > > No. Like I've said, telling users they need to wait at least one hour to > install and build gtk3 +quartz and webkit2-gtk +quartz due lack of pre > built version will move me and them away from MaxPorts. About Way

Re: XFCE

2016-01-09 Thread James Linder
> On 10 Jan 2016, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> What is the role of xfce4-session ? Because other components (xfwm4, panel, >> desktop) seem to work ... >> /opt/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: line 113: 13661 Segmentation fault: 11 xfce4-session >>>

Re: xfce

2016-01-06 Thread James Linder
> On 7 Jan 2016, at 12:44 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2016, at 9:57 PM, James Linder wrote: > >> I have built xfce on el Capitan >> I filed 2 tickets about xfce failing to build, 1 a red-herring (for non >> english speakers that is a distraction with

xfce

2016-01-06 Thread James Linder
I have built xfce on el Capitan I filed 2 tickets about xfce failing to build, 1 a red-herring (for non english speakers that is a distraction with no reason) 1 about SIP that is real (and sorry Ryan for getting the ticket detail wrong), but it works beautifully. Thanks to the maintainers - it wa

Re: XFCE

2016-01-05 Thread James Linder
> On 6 Jan 2016, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > OS X 10.11.2, Xcode 7.2. Has anyone managed to install xfce ? For me, the installation fails at the package xfconf ... >> >> The old ports for Xfce 4.6 and the (unreleased) Xfce 4.8 hadn

Re: XFCE, Gnome

2016-01-02 Thread James Linder
> On 3 Jan 2016, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > > Hi, > OS X 10.11.2, Xcode 7.2. > ? > Has anyone managed to install xfce ? For me, the installation fails at the > package xfconf ... > ? > I have installed gnome. However I am unable to launch a gnome-session. Wh

Re: Spider Webs

2015-12-25 Thread James Linder
> On 25 Dec 2015, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > > Long ago (a week or 2) in a land far away (right here) > > X failed to start about 1 in 2 making my ports that use X11 fail to start. > So I upgraded to el Capitan and formatted my disk (case sensitive) > Many p

Re: macport bouncers

2015-12-24 Thread James Linder
> what email address are you sending to? Lat looks like you're sending to one > of the command processing addresses (ie listname-join / listname-leave) > >> On Dec 23, 2015, at 7:47 PM, James Linder wrote: >> >> My plain text no funnies mail is being bounced. >

Spider Webs

2015-12-23 Thread James Linder
Long ago (a week or 2) in a land far away (right here) X failed to start about 1 in 2 making my ports that use X11 fail to start. So I upgraded to el Capitan and formatted my disk (case sensitive) Many ports did work but gnuplot and QT5 failed to build. So I downgraded and installed yosemite. Eve

macport bouncers

2015-12-23 Thread James Linder
My plain text no funnies mail is being bounced. The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your original message. - Unprocessed: What is happening? James ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https:

Re: X start up issues

2015-12-17 Thread James Linder
> On 16 Dec 2015, at 6:53 pm, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > >> On Dec 15, 2015, at 11:27 PM, j...@tigger.ws wrote: >> >> >> First thanks for all the wise words. >> My *biggest* problem is that one login all works the next login it does not! >> >> Trying desperate measures I upgraded to el Capitan

Qt5

2015-12-15 Thread James Linder
Hi I installed Qt5 on yosemite and building apps/projects/whatever does not work. I filed a ticket and this was the sage response: The SDKs are not provided by MacPorts; they are part of Xcode. Xcode 7 only includes the 10.11 SDK, even if you are running on OS X 10.10. Apple does not c

X start up issues

2015-12-15 Thread James Linder
Hi A while back I asked if anyone could shed any light: Intermittently all my macports that use X fail to start. This from syslog. > Dec 14 09:50:59 haycorn.home org.macports.startx[699]: xauth: file > /Users/jam/.serverauth.700 does not exist > Dec 14 09:50:59 haycorn.home org.macports.startx[

OT X11

2015-11-22 Thread James Linder
Hi OT because this is not a macports issue but OnT because it affects many ports I often cannot start X11. Nothing particular (that I can understand) in the logs. log out then back in usually fixes the issue system.log:Nov 22 11:14:56 haycorn.home org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx[]:

Re: gcc48 won't build under El Capitan; cannot fix Availability.h

2015-10-27 Thread James Linder
> On 28 Oct 2015, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> Tickets >> >> #48471 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48471 >> >> #49381 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49381 >> >> both refer to build failures under El Capitan (in my case, OS X 10.11.1) >> involving gc

Re: about fragmentation (of free disk space)

2015-10-11 Thread James Linder
> On 12 Oct 2015, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> random access time for a SSD is 1-3 orders of magnitude less than for a >> rotational drive. >> >> As with anything, you need to measure ?real world use? to be certain, but >> it?s probably not an issue for S

Re: about fragmentation (of free disk space)

2015-10-10 Thread James Linder
> On 11 Oct 2015, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > > Anyone on here who is knowledgeable about disk (free space) fragmentation > (not just opinionated ;)) ? > > HFS+ is supposed to contain algorithms that limit file fragmentation, but > without a background proc

Re: thread CPU usage monitor?

2015-03-26 Thread James Linder
> On 27 Mar 2015, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> >> On Tuesday March 24 2015 15:30:19 Daniel J. Luke wrote: >>> On Mar 24, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote: >>> I don't know of any application for OS X to get this kind of information >>> out of the box

Re: about Qt 5.x and OS X 10.6

2015-03-21 Thread James Linder
> On 22 Mar 2015, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> Just one data point, but the next version of >> MythTV (0.28) is going to require Qt 5.2 at a >> minimum. Their reasoning: > > Well, there is already a Qt 5 in MacPorts. Except that until now installing > i

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread James Linder
> On 23 Jan 2015, at 12:42 am, William H. Magill wrote: > >>> I cannot explain why a (normally) rational, sane thinking idiot did not >>> make that his first port of call (beautifully synced) >>> >>> Jan 21 00:04:34 haycorn kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error. >>> >>> Thanks everybody, and sorry fo

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-21 Thread James Linder
> On 22 Jan 2015, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> >> change mail from one entry to another: wheel turns for 10-20 seconds then >> all is normal including change topic (repeat previous selection). >> firefox:youtube watch a clip, midway stops playing and wheel

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-21 Thread James Linder
> On 21 Jan 2015, at 2:38 pm, William H. Magill wrote: > > >> On Jan 20, 2015, at 10:28 PM, James Linder wrote: >> >> G’day >> The other day I reported that gnuplot had suddenly stopped working with term >> x11 but worked with term aqua. >> Mayb

OT probably, help please

2015-01-20 Thread James Linder
G’day The other day I reported that gnuplot had suddenly stopped working with term x11 but worked with term aqua. Maybe it was just slow ! I have an issue where the system has (suddenly) become very slow … iMac 27 top:cpu free 99 ish % system-monitor also shows cpu cores at 0% busy men free 8G df

Re: /opt/local/macports/software

2015-01-19 Thread James Linder
> On 20 Jan 2015, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> Le 19 janv. 2015 ? 10:54, Ryan Schmidt a ?crit : >>> So maybe we could reconsider the existence of this feature, or at least, >>> the fact that its mandatory. >> >> If I remember correctly, the code for the ol

Re: gnuplot [solved]

2015-01-07 Thread James Linder
> I do not keep my ports upto date, I do not regularily update being an old > fart and having been bitten many times by the inocuous upgrade that breaks > verything. > > My surprize when gnuplot stopped working in the last day or so is imense. > > This line in my plot files causes gnuplot to no

gnuplot

2015-01-05 Thread James Linder
I do not keep my ports upto date, I do not regularily update being an old fart and having been bitten many times by the inocuous upgrade that breaks verything. My surprize when gnuplot stopped working in the last day or so is imense. This line in my plot files causes gnuplot to not run: set term

Re: MacPorts usage statistics

2014-12-08 Thread James Linder
> On 9 Dec 2014, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >>> >>> In a sense we'd need a survey of which KDE4 ports are installed and in >>> active use! >> >> On MacPorts you mean? > > Indeed. > >> Well, there is Clemens' mpstats project [1], but the number of users

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-18 Thread James Linder
> On 19 Nov 2014, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > > I don't recall clearly but I think I wanted to run Snow Leopard in a > VM. Either 64- or 32-bit would be fine. If either Parallels or > VMWare would work for me I'd really like to hear about it because I > real

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-18 Thread James Linder
> On 19 Nov 2014, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > > I'm running OS X 10.5 Server, 10.6 Server, 10.7 and 10.8 in VMWare Fusion. > Been doing that since running OS X 10.7 as host and am now at 10.10. > > You can download Fusion and trial it before paying and get a

Re: Cannot get gimp app running

2014-10-31 Thread James Linder
> On 1 Nov 2014, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > > Before upgrading to Yosemite, MacPorts v2.3.2 and Xcode 6.1, GIMP app was > accessible by icons at the Applications Folder and the Launch Pad, and by > the contextual menu. After the upgrade, none of these options

Re: Gimp (Thomas Bodlien)

2014-10-07 Thread James Linder
But having said that I just installed macport version (again) and my 5 min play yielded no problems :-) > Gimp is not starting on OS X 10.9.2. > Can somebody check that? Much as I don’t like grabbing the menu buttons the native OSX build works while the same version from macports (and fink!) h

Re: Gimp (Thomas Bodlien)

2014-10-07 Thread James Linder
> Gimp is not starting on OS X 10.9.2. > Can somebody check that? Much as I don’t like grabbing the menu buttons the native OSX build works while the same version from macports (and fink!) has a truckfull of minor glitches (same version) nothing comes to mind, but irritating enough to ditch mac

Somewhat OT was liblzma and ffmpeg

2014-10-04 Thread James Linder
On 5 Oct 2014, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > 'evening! > > I'm doing a selfupdate, which includes upgrading ffmpeg > +gpl2+nonfree+universal+x11 from 2.3.3_0 to 2.4.1 . That went fine on 10.6, > but on my 10.9 VM I'm running into an issue involving liblzma, w

Re: Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

2014-09-16 Thread James Linder
On 17 Sep 2014, at 9:52 am, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, James Linder wrote: > all too reminescent of winders: lets see unix uses /, well fum we’ll use \ > > By the way, I would point out that the Mac way was the original one; > per-applicatio

Re: Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

2014-09-16 Thread James Linder
On 17 Sep 2014, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >>> You don't need a poll for this. There are OS X interface conventions >>> (including menu arrangement) that programs should conform to in order to be >>> good OS X citizens. >> >> I you want to look at it that wa

Re: Having trouble starting gnome-terminal on Mavericks

2014-05-30 Thread James Linder
On 31 May 2014, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > I just installed gnome-terminal on Mavericks, but I can't start it: > > Error constructing proxy for > org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling > StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: > GD

Re: clang memory usage vs. gcc (and OS X 10.8, 10.9, ...)

2014-03-17 Thread James Linder
On 18 Mar 2014, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> Well yes, of course. I was thinking as much as a test, to see if its the >> optimisations that are the issue, as it is for me, than as a solution. In my >> case i simply could not compile at all without -O0... wit

Re: taskgated: no signature

2014-03-17 Thread James Linder
On 18 Mar 2014, at 3:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > Yeah, that was all I meant by saying "on Mountain Lion and higher" was that > it was conditionally declared like that; I did *not* mean to imply that I > was on Mountain Lion myself... (I am actually still on Snow Le

Re: building kde4-baseapps

2014-03-03 Thread James Linder
On 4 Mar 2014, at 4:00 am, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> I think that is pretty much out of the question, unless you run a virtual >> machine. I am not sure where Linux is up to with dual-booting on Mac. >> When I last looked, about two years ago, it was possible with Win

gnome-terminal again

2014-03-01 Thread James Linder
G’day All The macport gnome-terminal suffers from similar active and inactive tabs http://askubuntu.com/questions/40332/how-to-make-selected-tab-in-terminal-more-prominent dconf has nothing that looks helpful and the suggestions in the above don’t do anything. Before I wade into the src code, ha

Re: Tears and Wailing

2014-02-17 Thread James Linder
a huge amount of help and guidance so that at dusk with the light behind me (Gilbert & Sullivan) I could almost say I like mavericks, and in particular all my macports are working correctly :-) James > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Landon J Fuller wrote: > > On Feb

gnome-terminal profiles

2014-02-15 Thread James Linder
Hi All if anyone *knows* then the answer will save me ages of spelunking. I already spent an hour or two … Where does gnome-terminal store it’s profiles? I’ve looked in all the predictable places! Thanks James PS OT but may help someone: Despite mail->preferences->composing->spell check [never

Re: Tears and Wailing

2014-02-14 Thread James Linder
On 15/02/2014 10:26 am, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:19 PM, James Linder <mailto:j...@tigger.ws>> wrote: I took this picture to show (on ps) XQuartz is running, gnuplot is running but there is no display. I'm stumped for ideas There's a

Tears and Wailing

2014-02-14 Thread James Linder
Preamble: I had an iMac 27 running Snow Leopard with Macports - happy for years I wanted to do some android and ios stuff with Qt so I needed Qt5 which needs Mavericks I installed mavericks and all was good for a while but then eg gnome-terminal would not run I don't like mavericks spaces, their

Re: help ...

2014-02-11 Thread James Linder
On 11/02/2014, at 11:25 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM, James Linder wrote: > I reinstalled snow leopard but xcode failed to install 'Unknown error ..." > The googled fixes did not work, but that with support and deep black magic > and xc

help ...

2014-02-10 Thread James Linder
Hi A very long story in 3 lines I really really don't like mavericks ... so I reinstalled snow leopard but xcode failed to install 'Unknown error ..." The googled fixes did not work, but that with support and deep black magic and xcode installed but now ... haycorn:DMG jam$ /opt/local/bin/gnom

xsane

2014-01-26 Thread James Linder
Hi for technical reasons I broke my principals and upgraded my snow leopard to mavericks. Oh how I rue the decision! but I digress … To overcome the CUPS chaos with mavericks (bugs in cups 1.7 mean I was unable to print to my linux server), So I put the printer on this system. Now I can print bu

Re: phinze/homebrew-cask on the same system like MacPorts

2013-12-18 Thread James Linder
On 19/12/2013, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >>> I switched back to MacPorts, because brew have to less packaged >>> software. Now found an interesting project about native GUI application= >> s. >>> =20 >>> https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask#readme >>> =20 >

Re: Any chance of seeing a port of Conky?

2013-12-02 Thread James Linder
On 03/12/2013, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> iStat Menus costs $16 where as gkrellm costs nothing. > > I didn?t say iStat Menus. I said iStats Pro, which costs nothing. > >> >> gkrellm is much more fun, customising, skinable and there are plugins. > > Cann

Re: Macports doesn't use latest Amarok release ?

2013-10-21 Thread James Linder
On 22/10/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >>> -> why it's trying to compile 2.6 version of Amarok instead of 2.8 that has >>> been released 2 months ago already ? >> >> Because no one's requested it. Please file an update ticket. > > I appear to have been wor

Re: newbie

2013-08-17 Thread James Linder
On 18/08/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> Another question is about KDE4 (I saw in pots.ow it works? I was KMail user >> very long time. > > Most KDE 4 apps work quite well in Mac OS X using Macports. The underlying > Qt 4 library is qt4-mac and it uses n

Re: newbie

2013-08-17 Thread James Linder
On 18/08/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > I am new in OSX world but I was long time FreeBSD user. > I start using 'homebrew" and I installed some applications. I search for some > program more and I found them in "macports". > And my question is: Do I need

Re: Error when trying to install putty (Giuseppe Tumminia)

2013-07-14 Thread James Linder
On 15/07/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > I have installed the following: > Xcode Version 4.6.3 (4H1503) > MacPorts 2.1.2 > Latest XQuartz > > My system info is: > System Version:OS X 10.8.4 (12E55) > Kernel Version: Darwin 12.4.0 > > I followed this steps:

Re: Macports

2013-06-13 Thread James Linder
On 14/06/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > I have installed Macports to try to install the GIMP software. I have > installed it but now don't know how to use it, uninstall it or even get off > of this mailing list. Can anyone help me out? I use macports lot

Re: suggestion

2013-06-13 Thread James Linder
On 14/06/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > While download statistics might not be a good system, I do concur that > MacPorts very much would benefit from having a "discovery" mechanism by > which users find out about useful ports. Searching is n

xfce

2013-05-12 Thread James Linder
Hi for fun I decided to try xfce. That failed to build and I was quickly led to tickets nearly 2 years old, there after a deathly 'ush. Is xfce a pipe dream? cheers James ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.m

Re: Foolish

2013-04-18 Thread James Linder
On 18/04/2013, at 12:01 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht > wrote: > On Apr 17, 2013, at 7:37 PM, James Linder wrote: > > :info:build ld: warning: directory '-L/opt/local/lib -arch x86_64 > > /System/Libra

Foolish

2013-04-17 Thread James Linder
I allowed myself to be seduced by 'self upgrade' and 'upgrade outdated' (I was installing git) sooo can the Maintainers of MythTV attend to the totally broken port please. mythtv-core.25 @0.25.3-Fixes-20121025 (multimedia) ... :info:build make[2]: Nothing to be done for `first'. :info:build make

Re: macports on linux

2013-04-02 Thread James Linder
On 03/04/2013, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> If not, the old fashioned way of installing via a tarball is pretty much >> the way to go. Linux is pretty much set up out the box to do this (after >> installing 'Development Tools' or build-essential & so on) so it

gnome-terminal unicode

2013-03-11 Thread James Linder
Hi can anybody guide a bear of little brain please: I've built and use gnome-terminal. I need to read unicode in it eg my russian screenshots are ?.png chinese files eg CAN???.rar I use QT with make. I'm pounded with 'did you forget ?;?' type messages. All o

Re: Side effects?

2013-02-01 Thread James Linder
On 02/02/2013, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> CLI does the job nicely and well, why on earth would you seek to make an >> easy, automateable task hard/impossible. > > Here are a few things that a GUI can do that the CLI cannot: > > 1. Filter ports by category

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-31 Thread James Linder
On 01/02/2013, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> It is routinely a GSoC project, and since we were not chosen last year it >> has definitely fallen behind. >> >>> BTW, does Macports have a nice safe GUI? > > If I knew what tools to use on Apple Mac, I might have

Re: Side effects?

2013-01-31 Thread James Linder
On 01/02/2013, at 4:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> >> One time funding (pay for a task) is (arguably) different than routinely >> asking for money. We have had trolls in the past like that, simply feeding >> off people. > > Well, I don't think I'm a troll...for a

Re: Cross compiling for Windows

2012-09-24 Thread James Linder
On 25/09/2012, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> Sorry for the kind of OT post, but can anyone help me get it straight on how >> to cross compile something for Windows? >> I know kind of the last step how to make configure (if there is one) >> understand that I w

Launcher failure

2012-09-12 Thread James Linder
Hi I can live with this problem, but if anyone says AH-HA please share: I built gnome-terminal from fink (2.28.2) and macports (also 2.28.2) If I run the macport version from cli it starts and the only clutter is: [haycorn] /Users/jam [501]% /opt/local/bin/gnome-terminal Xlib: extension "RANDR

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-12 Thread James Linder
On 13/09/2012, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >>> I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in >>> parallel to maximally use the cores on a machine. Is there a way to do >>> so? Thanks! >> >> This used to be allowed (unintentionally, I thin

Re: Command-line ogg to mp3 converter

2012-09-03 Thread James Linder
On 04/09/2012, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >>> Greetings : >>> >>> I'm looking for a command line ogg to mp3 converter for osx. > >> I imagine that ffmpeg would be the best bet; it can do just about anything. > >> There's an example of converting an ogg fil

Re: OT upgrade

2012-08-08 Thread James Linder
On 09/08/2012, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> I'm using snow-leopard and everything works perfectly: gnome-terminal, >> wireshark, gimp, wget, latex ... >> After watching the woes unfold here why would I upgrade, what does lion >> offer that I don't have? (fac

OT upgrade

2012-08-07 Thread James Linder
[snip] >> The reason I suggested manually uninstalling the old Xcode is that that is >> what I had to do on my system. I migrated to a Lion system from a Snow >> Leopard system, and Xcode 3.2.6 was migrated over too. Then when I installed >> Xcode 4.3 via the Mac App Store, it did not automati

Re: Problem installing rpm using macports

2012-07-02 Thread James Linder
On 02/07/2012, at 10:00 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> If you want to build rpm for xxx distro eg CentOS5 then you need to build on >> CentOS5. >> [..] >> Save yourself the heart ache and believe that you cannot cross build rpm. >> ('course you can, but you really hav

Re: Problem installing rpm using macports

2012-07-01 Thread James Linder
On 01/07/2012, at 10:00 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > I don't want to install an rpm on my mac. I want to build rpm packages on > my mac for installation on other CentOS or Redhat machines. > > 2012/7/1 Brandon Allbery > >> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Wim Deblau

Re: Qt debug (Michael Dickens)

2012-05-25 Thread James Linder
On 25/05/2012, at 10:00 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > Hi James - Is your qt4-mac-devel installed with the +debug vartiant? > Try "port installed qt4-mac-devel" and that should show you what > variants are installed. If it's not installed as +debug, then there > will b

Re: Qt debug

2012-05-24 Thread James Linder
On 24/05/2012, at 7:28 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote: > At 10:58 AM +0800 5/24/12, James Linder wrote: >> Hi >> If anyone can save me ages of hunting I'd appreciate it lots: >> >> I built Qt [port install qt4-mac-devel] >> >> I then built my applicatio

Qt debug

2012-05-23 Thread James Linder
Hi If anyone can save me ages of hunting I'd appreciate it lots: I built Qt [port install qt4-mac-devel] I then built my application which fails with: ... /usr/bin/g++-4.2 -headerpad_max_install_names -arch x86_64 -Xarch_x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -o vtext.app/Contents/MacOS/vtext obj/mai

Re: Which version of "Wine", or am I on the wrong track?

2012-04-18 Thread James Linder
On 18/04/2012, at 10:00 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: On Apr 15, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: > I am not sure which version of Wine to install from Macports (there > are three), or if this is even the right approach for what I want t

Re: Which version of "Wine", or am I on the wrong track?

2012-04-16 Thread James Linder
On 16/04/2012, at 10:00 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > I am not sure which version of Wine to install from Macports (there > are three), or if this is even the right approach for what I want to > do. > > The goal: Edit a "movie" (screen recording), from the view that 80

Re: /usr/local question

2012-04-05 Thread James Linder
On 05/04/2012, at 10:00 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > oh... I didn't know that. I just took a look in my /usr/local, and found a > whole bunch of stuff for texlive, and then various programs that I remember > installing. > > is there a recommended place for me to put

Re: installation on nfs disk

2012-03-31 Thread James Linder
On 31/03/2012, at 10:00 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> ./configure --prefix=/ibpc/osx/lbt/macport/2.0.4/SL --enable-readline >> --with-install-user=`id -un` --with-install-group=`id -gn` >> --with-tcl-package=/ibpc/osx/lbt/macport/2.0.4/SL/share/macports/Tcl >> >> And

Re: html 5 and css 3 editor

2012-03-25 Thread James Linder
On 25/03/2012, at 10:00 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >> Do you know a good html 5 and css 3 ?ditor on macport ? >> >> It seems that on kde ther'is kwebdev and on gnome, ther'is WDT - >> Web Developer Tools but I could not found thees portfiles ? >> >> Can you help me p

Re: MythTV port?

2012-03-22 Thread James Linder
On 22/03/2012, at 10:01 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > I've been running MythTV on Mac OS X for a number of years. > The core functionality is wonderful but the > build and install process on Mac is pretty darn painful! > > A capsule summary

Re: Should I Uninstall MacPorts to Reinstall?

2012-03-22 Thread James Linder
On 22/03/2012, at 10:01 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > I'm a new user, and I think this is how I ask a question. I am downloading > the digiKam photo application, and to do that, I was required to download > Xcode and Macports. I downloaded Xcode 3.0 and then I downloa

Re: Macports and Qt development

2012-03-04 Thread James Linder
On 04/03/2012, at 11:00 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > Hi! I would like to know if other Mac/Qt (optionally also Python) developers > are having as many problems as I do. > > MacPorts installs Qt as a normal library, although there is a variant (non > default) that wi

Re: update

2012-03-04 Thread James Linder
On 03/03/2012, at 10:41 PM, Daniel Ericsson wrote: > On 3 mar 2012, at 14:07, James Linder wrote: > >> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: >> /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist already exists and >> does not belong to a reg

Re: update

2012-03-03 Thread James Linder
On 03/03/2012, at 7:57 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Mar 3, 2012, at 1:58 a.m., James Linder wrote: > >> EVERYTHING now works except gnome-terminal will not build. > > Can you provide the gnome-terminal log? sh-3.2# port install gnome-terminal ---> Computing d

Re: update

2012-03-02 Thread James Linder
On 03/03/2012, at 12:30 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 23:16, James Linder wrote: > :info:configure Can't locate File/Path.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /opt/local/share/autoconf > /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3/darwin-multi-2level > /opt/local

update

2012-03-02 Thread James Linder
Hi 1) I did a selfupdate with no errors repeated haycorn:~ # port selfupdate ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync MacPorts base version 2.0.4 installed, MacPorts base version 2.0.4 downloaded. ---> Updating the ports tree ---> MacPorts base is already the latest version The ports t

Re: Help please

2012-02-22 Thread James Linder
On 23/02/2012, at 1:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2012, at 22:44, James Linder wrote: > >>>>> checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes >>>>> checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no >>>>> configure: Using Apple Objective

Re: Help please

2012-02-21 Thread James Linder
Hi [snip] >> >>> checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... yes >>> checking for GNU Objective C runtime... no >>> configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime >>> checking for Apple Foundation library... no >>> configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your environment, >>> prevent

Re: Help please

2012-02-19 Thread James Linder
On 20/02/2012, at 4:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Feb 19, 2012, at 06:21, James Linder wrote: > >> On 19/02/2012, at 4:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 23:06, James Linder wrote: >>> >>>> On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan S

Re: Help please

2012-02-19 Thread James Linder
On 19/02/2012, at 4:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Feb 18, 2012, at 23:06, James Linder wrote: > >> On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote: >>> >>>> sh-3.2# port install libgnome >

Re: Help please

2012-02-18 Thread James Linder
On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote: > >> sh-3.2# port install libgnome >> Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file >> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no su

Re: Help please

2012-02-18 Thread James Linder
On 19/02/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2012, at 19:49, James Linder wrote: > >> sh-3.2# port install libgnome >> Error: Unable to open port: couldn't read file >> "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portmirror.tcl": no su

Help please

2012-02-18 Thread James Linder
G'day for ages I've been using gnome-terminal. Today it would not start (The ONLY thing I did was allow firefox to upgrade) This describes my fault exactly: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27235 dutifully I installed libgnome after selfupdate: ( sh-3.2# port selfupdate Warning: No index(es) fo

Re: How to install a port update ?

2012-01-31 Thread James Linder
On 01/02/2012, at 6:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jan 31, 2012, at 15:51, James Linder wrote: > >> I tried to build amarok with dismal results > > What problem did you encounter? Since it was in the early days of using macports (a year ago) I cannot give you a useful a

Re: How to install a port update ?

2012-01-31 Thread James Linder
On 31/01/2012, at 11:01 PM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: >>> Lastfm port for amarok has updated. >>> >>> I have downloaded a file from this url : >>> >>> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/89263 >>> >>> I don't know how to install it >> >> The only thing you need to do

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