Re: livecheck - extracted version is older

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > This is 2.4.99 on 10.6.8 > > $ sudo port clean --all opencore-amr > ---> Cleaning opencore-amr > $ port livecheck opencore-amr > Error: livecheck failed for opencore-amr: extracted version '0.1.2' is > older than

Re: Trouble upgrading Macports to Sierra

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) < stephen.lan...@nist.gov> wrote: > This reminds me of something I’ve been wondering about. Why do the > migration instructions recommend explicitly reinstalling all previously > installed ports, and then optionally marking the previously

Re: Trouble upgrading Macports to Sierra

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Barrie Stott wrote: > Thanks for the speedy reply, Chris. It’s a pity I couldn’t use > ‘selfupdate’ because it appeared to be just what I wanted. Still, I used > the pkg installer for Sierra and it was reasonably painless. Now I’m on to >

Re: Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > vim $(port logfile thePort) > ...and the port you installed will usually get expanded with . (bash/zsh, in default emacs mode) so you don't even need to type that :) -- brandon s a

Re: Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Dave Horsfall <d...@horsfall.org> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > Never assume people will read instructions. How often do we get people > > who cut and paste the boilerplate at the end of a failed build that &g

Re: all compilers blacklisted or unavailable

IIRC there's also an edge case when something tries to check the compiler in a fetch step or w/e and the information doesn't exist yet, so all compilers are "blacklisted" because there are no compilers defined yet, while the code printing that assumes the compiler list is empty because

Re: Click-and-hold instead of right-click?

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:40 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Wednesday March 15 2017 18:16:20 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > That behavior is specific to Dock. > > That seems unusually inconsistent. > You don't use iTunes, do you? Apple gave up on consistency years ago. --

Re: fail to destroot port with only makefile

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:42 AM, db wrote: > On 8 Mar 2017, at 01:10, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On 7 Mar 2017, at 20:00, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >>> That can be an acceptable workaround. Sometimes it has side effects. I > don't know if it does with this

Re: Trac login

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Geoff Down wrote: > has the access to Trac changed? I don't recall Github being involved > before. Will my old login creds work ?(it seems not, but I may have > forgottent which password). > Apple shut down MacOSForge, the whole

Re: A question on dynamic linking / version-changing libraries

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Michael wrote: > I'm curious more as to: Why do we still generate code that links against a > fixed-name library? Why does that name not include a version/API reference? > Why not make static linked stuff, so that changes in the libraries

Re: A question on dynamic linking / version-changing libraries

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Michael wrote: > Why does Macports generate libraries that follow the 1970-era linking > strategy? Because MacPorts is ports of programs for other platforms which don't have frameworks... and do have politics (for example: Debian's strict

Re: Rescuing a Macports file from Time Machine

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > For those allergic to command-lines, or afraid of terminals, >> > > I figured for those using macports the above probably did not apply ;) You'd be surprised. It's not 2000 any more. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh

Re: Apple-media on Darwin 16

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:55 PM, McHack wrote: > Is there any reliable way to override this setting and possibly rebuild > gst-plugin-bad to include apple-media? I am using python port of GST Generally if it's been disabled, it's because it doesn't work (likely

Re: mailers

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:34 AM, James Linder wrote: > Hi All > I did port list and nothing jumped out. I 'm looking for a mailer. > Suggestions anyone. > > Apple mail is perfect *except* it's baysen filtering is rat-wossname. I > get pounded daily with 'Patriot Videos' and '2nd

Re: Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > It depends on the order in your /etc/paths. If I put it first, it is > first. The advantage of /etc/paths is it is applied even to the graphical > environment, not just when running a login shell. > > Oh, I was

Re: port ability to traverse proxies seems broken?

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless Architect) < smith.kenn...@hp.com> wrote: > Setting my proxy using "export ALL_PROXY=fakeproxy.hp.com:8080" doesn't > help > Can't speak to the rest of it, but this would be expected; sudo cleans the environment (for very good reasons).

Re: Help wanted: unbuffer, or stdbuf

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Michael wrote: > So I wanted to linebuffer a program that is feeding into a pipe. > > Looking around with Google, I found two solutions: > 1, unbuffer, from expect, or > 2, stdbuf, from the gnu core utils. > > I've got expect 5.45. I've got

Re: Building arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc fails

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Florian Schweiger wrote: > And out of interest: Is it normal that clang gets used to compile the port > although I've installed and selected gcc6? > "port select" lets you pick a version for your own use. Ports specify their own compilers,

Re: Why doesn't MacPorts handle switching between x11 and quartz better (was: Re: Inkscape 0.92.0 now available on MacPorts)

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Michael wrote: > they have a way to use/provide both kinds of service (gtk I think was one > of them) gtk3 has pluggable backends, although the current gtk3 port is not set up to use them. gtk2 is a monolith: you have to choose the backend

Re: Inkscape 0.92.0 now available on MacPorts

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 6:43 PM, David Evans wrote: > If it's still gtk2 +x11, install gtk2 +quartz instead. Test by running > gtk-demo (provided by gtk2) and observe that it > runs (sucessfully) without XQuartz starting. > Disable revupdate first (see

Re: Migration issue

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote: > But, this list is from the old machine. My question is why the new > machine ended up with a lot more +universal. Actually, I'm starting to wonder if there is a general option leakage issue of late (compare the

Re: Inkscape 0.92.0 now available on MacPorts

Gotzon <enekogot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Brandon, thank you for take time to answer my question > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> XQuartz = X server under Quartz = X11 for OS X. >> > > I

Re: Macports processes never go away

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Michael wrote: > Is there anything that can be done about this, or is this just a > side-effect of Mac OS that a user never completely logs out? Probably nothing safe; they're definitely OS X things. Just ignore them. -- brandon s

Re: Need help configuring gdb (ggdb)...

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: > But I have not yet gone ahead and done so since I am confused about the > argument in the last step. First of all, is this > referring to the gcc ada compiler…and if so, is it already installed or do > I need to go