Re: Ruby Fails

2007-11-30 Thread John Labovitz
On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Roger Hoover wrote: I think I ran into the same issue. For some reason, something was wrong with my gem port. I've noticed that sometimes having RUBYOPT set (or unset) can trigger this problem. (I have RUBYOPT set to "-rubygems" in my .bashrc.) I just did a

Re: Please clear up DarwinPort/MacPorts confusion

2007-04-05 Thread John Labovitz
No offense, but getting to the actual download is still more difficult than it should be. Just to map it out, here's what a new user has to go through: - Go to macports.org - Click on "Downloads" - Click on "Downloads Directory" - Click on "MacPorts-1.4.0" (if t

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread John Labovitz
On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:31 PM, John Labovitz wrote: Hm. At one point this was not true. I distinctly remember needing to add some variant in order to get to WebDAV repos. Maybe that has changed. That would be good, as it always seemed

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread John Labovitz
On Jan 7, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 18:25, John Labovitz wrote: I will say that from experience you will probably want +mod_dav_svn, as it provides access to WebDAV-hosted repositories, which includes many public SVN repos. I've tried building Subve

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread John Labovitz
On Jan 7, 2007, at 3:28 PM, belinda thom wrote: How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra variants used? In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is: 32 % port info subversion subversion 1.4.2, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn, no_neon, no

Re: crosscompiling macports, how hard is it?

2007-01-02 Thread John Labovitz
I've successfully used a combination of lipo(1) and install_name_tool (1) to build universal versions of MacPorts libraries (built on separate PPC/Intel machines, alas) so that everything the app needed lived in /Contents/Frameworks. I used install_name_tool to change any links to, eg, /opt

Re: POSIX::strftime hangs

2006-11-12 Thread John Labovitz
On Nov 12, 2006, at 10:18pm, Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote: Can somebody on Tiger run the following perl program and post whether you get to "C"? My installation hangs at "A". Mine does, too. 10.4.8 (Intel), perl5.8 @5.8.8_0+darwin_8. --John __

Re: Easily build Portfiles from ruby gems

2006-11-06 Thread John Labovitz
On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:40am, Paul Guyot wrote: With such a script, there's no reason to continue to use gem to install ruby gems. Using gem may yield in inconsistencies. I know that most ruby tutorial around say: get ruby with darwinports, then use gem. But I strongly disagree. At some point,