Re: odd problem trying to use Macports ...

2020-12-30 Thread raf
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 05:36:21PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Dec 30, 2020, at 17:10, raf wrote: > > > Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed > > Please run `port -v selfupdate` for details. > > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error

Re: odd problem trying to use Macports ...

2020-12-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 30, 2020, at 17:10, raf wrote: > Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed > Please run `port -v selfupdate` for details. > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new > MacPorts base: command execution failed > > (it was

Re: odd problem trying to use Macports ...

2020-12-30 Thread raf
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 03:57:16PM -0500, Richard Bonomo TDS personal wrote: > Dear Dave, > > Thank you for the advice. I will see if I can implement it. > > As to why people never update their systems: it is simple: Sadly, there are several reasons to not update systems. For example, when

Re: odd problem trying to use Macports ...

2020-12-30 Thread Richard Bonomo TDS personal
Dear Ryan, I will give that a try. I am sure I installed Macports on the system many, many, moons ago, probably on a 2008 MacBook Pro -- the predecessor to my current device. Rich - Original Message - From: "Ryan Schmidt" To: "Richard Bonomo TDS personal" Cc: "MacPorts Users" Sent:

Re: odd problem trying to use Macports ...

2020-12-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Remember to Reply All so the conversation stays on the list. On Dec 30, 2020, at 10:36, Richard Bonomo TDS personal wrote: > Here are the outputs: > > Aquinas-276:bonomo$ lipo -info > /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib > Architectures in the fat file: >

Re: odd problem trying to use Macports ...

2020-12-30 Thread Richard Bonomo TDS personal
Dear Dave, Thank you for the advice. I will see if I can implement it. As to why people never update their systems: it is simple: "We" (i.e. "people") need a tool to do a specific, but rare (for us) thing. We acquire the tool. We do the thing. We forget about everything while putting out

Re: odd problem trying to use Macports ...

2020-12-30 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Downloading the current MacPorts installer for Sierra from our web site and running it should hopefully set things right again. This will not affect your installed ports. If I may chuck in my 2c (plus sales tax), every Sunday I run "port -u

Re: wxWidgets-3.0 warnings with Big Sur

2020-12-30 Thread Ken Cunningham
I suspect, based on Ryan’s bug investigation, that if the build scripts for wxWidgets ran install_name_tool only on the final library name (the real library), and not on any of the symlinks, that it would build correctly. Given that we have no idea how long it will take apple to fix

Re: wxWidgets-3.0 warnings with Big Sur

2020-12-30 Thread Kevin Horton
> On Dec 29, 2020, at 9:18 PM, Ken Cunningham > wrote: > > > >> On Dec 29, 2020, at 8:47 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: >> >> I moved libwx_osx_cocoau_core-3.0.0.dylib and >> libwx_osx_cocoau_core-3.0.dylib aside and symlinked those names to >> /libwx_osx_cocoau_core-3.0.0.4.0.dylib >> >> ls