On Saturday, August 04, 2007, at 08:53PM, "Chris Pickel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 04 Aug, 2007, at 22:40, Jody Paul wrote: >> I am having trouble when I attempt to install any ports that depend >> on ncurses. >> Running on a MacBook Pro (Intel) with OS X 10.4.10 I get the >> following when trying to install the ncurses port. >> Any advice on what I should be doing to make this work? >> Thanks!!! > >Is there any chance that your MacPorts installation was copied/ >migrated from a ppc Mac? I see two problems in your transcript: > * it's referring to /opt/local/lib/libformw.dylib etc., which are >installed by ncursesw, and shouldn't be there if ncursesw hasn't yet >been installed > * it's saying that these files are compiled for ppc > >The simplest explanation is that these files were put there by a ppc >installation of MacPorts. If that's the case, the simplest solution >is to move /opt/local aside and reinstall from the disk image. If you >can't install ncurses, I'm guessing you haven't been able to install >much at all. > > >Chris
Thanks, that solved the problem. Was definitely due to a migrated system. Interesting that the selfupdate worked fine as did upgrade to quite a number of other ports... wasn't until I tried updating ncurses that the problem showed up. Thanks again! --J _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
