Re: Can brew and port be used on the same system?

2017-05-27 Thread Mark Anderson
Yes, but I'd advise against it. I thought I had to for RVM and it caused me loads of trouble. Then I learned I could set it to MacPorts and a deleted brew and never looked back. I've been using MacPorts since before Intel, so I'm attached. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Sat, M

Re: Macports fails to build in macOS 10.12 Sierra

2016-06-20 Thread Mark Anderson
ly. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia < jerem...@apple.com> wrote: > > > On Jun 19, 2016, at 17:15, Mark Anderson wrote: > > > > Jeremy, I'm still interested in a answer as to what is covered by this: > > >

Re: Macports fails to build in macOS 10.12 Sierra

2016-06-19 Thread Mark Anderson
Jeremy, I'm still interested in a answer as to what is covered by this: Further, Apple agrees that You will not be bound by the foregoing confidentiality terms with regard to technical information about pre-release Apple Software and services disclosed by Apple at WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide Developer

Re: Macports fails to build in macOS 10.12 Sierra

2016-06-18 Thread Mark Anderson
Doesn't this exception cover the asked question? Further, Apple agrees that You will not be bound by the foregoing confidentiality terms with regard to technical information about pre-release Apple Software and services disclosed by Apple at WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference), except t

Re: New Mac OS Forge administrator

2015-11-20 Thread Mark Anderson
Oh thank god. I was afraid MacOSForge was circling the drain. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Eneko Gotzon wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: > >> find some time to answer queries on the list… >> > I have learned so m

Re: handbrake?

2015-01-31 Thread Mark Anderson
That port is a beast. I'm amazed it ever worked. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Jan 25, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Ludwig wrote: > > > Is any work being done on the broken Handbrake port? It's been over a > year > > sinc

Re: handbrake?

2015-01-25 Thread Mark Anderson
I just started looking at it. Whew. That is a quite a Portfile. We should file a ticket to get it to 0.10.0, but as it's nomaintainer, I doubt anyone will mind you working on it. In fact, I'd encourage it. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Craig Trel

Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

2014-03-18 Thread Mark Anderson
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Landon Fuller wrote: > "MacPorts driving you to drink?" I hate that. Turned me off the whole project. --Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.or

Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

2014-03-18 Thread Mark Anderson
Yeah, I think tcl is one of the things that confounds people the most. Not really learned that much anymore. I learned it long ago for CAD tools from IBM. But really, both Homebrew and Macports are domain specific languages from the port writers perspective. You've got to learn it anyway. People i

Re: Where should non-macports sw be installed? (Was: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

2014-02-14 Thread Mark Anderson
I also install into /opt/ where expands to something descriptive of all the crap I am installing in there. Then I can turn PATHs on and off depending. This is really important for playing with things like the gtk+ cocoa that needs its whole space to itself. Just DONT use /opt or /opt/local of cour

Re: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

2014-02-12 Thread Mark Anderson
They've really started to run into the same problems that MacPorts solved long ago. Considering the their page title is "Homebrew -- MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!", I find pleasure in their difficulty. The only thing I wish we did that they do is git. But we don't forbid it, so eh.

Re: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

2014-02-12 Thread Mark Anderson
It's possible to get Fink and MacPorts to work together, although I don't recommend it. Before we had ROOT in MacPorts, my wife and I got this to work on her machine for Particle Physics-y things. Homebrew however, does not really work and play well with others. If you want to use it, you really ca

Re: fife & Unknown Horizons Game

2013-12-08 Thread Mark Anderson
I tried sometime ago, fife is not the easiest thing to build on the mac. But I'd be willing to help out. If you can help figure out how to get it to compile, we can make a port file. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Jean-François Caron wrote: > Hi,

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Mark Anderson
I love the idea of a portfile override, but building from cpanm (cpanmp?) most of the time. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Nov 11, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt > wrote: > > > >> It would certainly be possible to

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-10 Thread Mark Anderson
Yeah, I'd apply that patch while we all figure out what to do. I'd be happy to take on the "Perl fixing" work as Perl is my first language love. (Well C/C++ I learned first, so I guess, my first scripting language love. Technically, I learned BASIC on a TI/994A first, but the less said about that t

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-05 Thread Mark Anderson
of the installed perl modules when > upgraded (or actually, on post-activate). > > Of course, that's considerably more work (and requires changes to base/ > that others may or may not be willing to accept into base/). > > We should at least just switch to one stable perl5, t

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-04 Thread Mark Anderson
g more and more toward nuking all but the latest perl and away from port select. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Nov 3, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2013, at 15:38, Mark Anderson wrote: >

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-03 Thread Mark Anderson
3 and I can see keeping both around. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Clemens Lang wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 05:12:45PM -0500, Mark Anderson wrote: > > I'm all for doing what we need to do. I use a lot of perl, an

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-03 Thread Mark Anderson
I'm all for doing what we need to do. I use a lot of perl, and I have always tried to install the latest or close to latest. Back before we had the perl5 port I had a perl script that read every port file and essentially did this: s/perl5.8/perl5.12/ - so I'm a big fan of having the latest availabl

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-03 Thread Mark Anderson
I've added a patch. I had one when I did perl 5.18 which i meant to add to the ticket, but forgot. Although we do need to come up with a better perl strategy. The current workings drive me crazy. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

Re: Port won't install on 10.9

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Anderson
You need to install from svn trunk. Or at least that has been the best experience I have had. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:29 AM, PJW wrote: > I try to install using source file (MacPorts-2.2.0.tar.gz) and failed. > There’s no pkg package for Mac OS

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-08-09 Thread Mark Anderson
:) Not much, if any. But the reverse is constantly true. LaTeX is the one that got me to convert people in the CS department. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > > Create a homebrew port of awesome. >> >> That way, not only will

Re: UsingTheRightCompiler

2012-04-16 Thread Mark Anderson
Clang also compiles way faster for me, and the binaries are faster. I'd like to keep GCC only to where clang breaks. Mark On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jeff Singleton wrote: > If you had read my entire email you would have seen that I have tried > building (rebuilding) everything again. > >

Re: How can I control the Perl version I want?

2012-01-05 Thread Mark Anderson
Install perl5 +perl_514 instead of perl5 +perl5_12 I think that should work. Mark On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote: > perl5 @5.12.3_1+perl5_12 ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macos

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Anderson
I've been meaning to make a BibDesk port for a while now. I don't recognize the others. Otherwise, MacPorts is pretty up to date. Especially if you install texlive+full Mark On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Scott Webster wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Richard L. Hamilton > wrote: >

Re: Orpie

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Anderson
_camlGsl_matrix_complex__24 in gsl_matrix_complex.o > "_ml_gsl_vector_float_minindex", referenced from: > _camlGsl_vector__19 in gsl_vector.o > "_ml_gsl_matrix_complex_float_scale", referenced from: > _camlGsl_matrix_complex__24 in gsl_matrix_complex.o >

Re: Orpie

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Anderson
Can you try again with port -v, and post the error messages? —Mark On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Vincent DIEMUNSCH < vincent.diemun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have tried to install Orpie many times, but i get the following : > > > install orpie > ---> Computing dependencies for orpi

Re: Error building teTeX

2010-05-10 Thread Mark Anderson
Total aside, you should probably try texlive, as it is maintained. Mark On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On May 10, 2010, at 01:28, Vincent DIEMUNSCH wrote: > >> I try to install teTeX on my MacBookPro (OS 10.6.3) and I get the following >> error (see below). > >> i686-a

Re: Mac::Growl?

2010-04-30 Thread Mark Anderson
I can give it a look on Sunday. I'm planning to use cpan2port, so you may want to give that a try that yourself, might (I stress might) be easy. Mark On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Steve Morris wrote: > Is it possible to get the CPAN package Mac::Growl ported? > > Thanks > __

Re: Building time for qt4-mac

2010-03-15 Thread Mark Anderson
I would also maybe try port -v install qt4-mac or whatever, then you can see the build process to see if it's really stalled. Ryan is right though, qt4-mac is a monster build, and takes forever. I think it took almost an hour on my 8 core mac pro. Mark On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Ryan Sch

Re: Error trying to upgrade Perl 5.10

2010-01-21 Thread Mark Anderson
It will sort of, you just have to make symbolic links to the perl-5.10 , cpan-5.10, etc. I did it with a perl script. I haven't had anything complain yetbut YMMV. Mark On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Jan 20, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> perl5.10 was

Re: qt4-mac update fails to compile

2010-01-09 Thread Mark Anderson
I got this one too. I had to manually change all of those -arch -Xarch_x86_64 to -arch x86_64 -Xarch_x86_64, and by manually, I mean with Perl. Then it compiled just fine. I was thinking of filing a ticket, but I'm not sure how to fix it from our end. I think it's a QT4 problem, and I can't find

Re: View/Hide /opt folder from Finder

2009-11-07 Thread Mark Anderson
If you've Setfile -a V, you can Cmd-Shift-Period from the Open/Save Dialog, and it will show hidden files. (10.6 only) Mark On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Steven Rogers wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2009, at 6:15 AM, Luís Beça wrote: > >> How can I View/Hide the /opt folder from Finder? I have a laptop

Re: Updating Perl

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Anderson
One of the things I have done is made soft links in /opt/local/bin from all the -5.10 programs to their real names; Tricks a lot of the ports to just build without building perl5.8. However, this can and probably will mess a bunch of stuff up for you later and/or now. All l can say is it has work

Re: Using mplayer through Finder

2009-05-31 Thread Mark Anderson
Try using RCDefaultApp: http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/ Mark On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Kal wrote: > Nobody knows ? :-/ > > There should be a trick, like building a .app file si it can be associated > to video files in Finder... > > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Kal

gEDA ports

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Anderson
I have some Portfiles that install gEDA(http://geda.seul.org). Before I submit a ticket to add them, I have a question. Should I separate the Portfiles for each component, (e.g. geda-libgeda , geda-gschem) or one big port file that installs the whole thing? (e.g. geda) —Mark

Re: Error building "octave" from port

2008-04-05 Thread Mark Anderson
I had this very same problem, check out this ticket: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13686 I managed to get Octave 3.0.0 to build using the Portfile in this ticket. —Mark On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Jean-François Gobin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install octave. It chokes :

Ticket #14887 (tesseract)

2008-04-04 Thread Mark Anderson
I posted a ticket with a Portfile for the tesseract OCR engine, can someone please commit it? Mark ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: ffmpeg doesn't build with leopard

2007-10-28 Thread Mark Anderson
I added this to my portfile, seemed to do the trick. Seems that assembly and OSX still don't get along. configure.args-append --disable-mmx Mark On 10/27/07, Michael Staggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used the following command line: sudo port -v install ffmpeg +a52 > +faac +faad +gpl +lame