On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:36:35PM -0700, Scott Haneda said: > On Sep 16, 2009, at 9:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > > >There are some issues in 1.8.0, yes. "port load" isn't working > >which might affect you if you want to run server processes; in that > >case, use the longer "sudo launchctl ..." commands. There is an > >issue if the top-level directory you're installing into is a > >symlink, so don't do that. There are several issues if your > >MacPorts install is not owned by root, so use a normal root-owned > >install for now. We now pass "-arch" all the time, not just for > >universal builds, and this breaks some ports -- in particular glib2 > >is broken due to this on PowerPC. I will look into this soon. Any > >other issues you're thinking of? > > > >You can always build MacPorts from source in a totally different > >prefix, keeping your current MacPorts installation untouched, to > >test if everything builds ok. > > I am not doing anything out of the ordinary. php, mysql, apache2, > and pureftpd. Do you know of any issues with those? > > As time moves on, Dovecot and Postfix will probably make there way to > the machine, but I am not sure at this time. Thanks
Note that most of the issues recently have been port-related with how Mac OS X 10.6 builds 64bit by default, and not necessarily MacPorts 1.8.0. Bryan > -- > Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users