On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:39 AM, John B Brown wrote:
> I'll stop getting entangled with functional anomalies in MacPorts. Any
> UNIX/Linux utilities I want I'll modify for myself to work on my iMac.
> There's a /usr/local here for a purpose; that's where the gnu utilities go
> automatically.
I'm not sure why you are having so many issues with this. I believe in reading
over your thread you have done a completely new install of your OS. If that is
the case, and you are having these issues, the only thing I can think of is you
have corrupt installer discs, something is wrong with your hardware, or your
process is flawed. Perhaps you are migrating in an old data file of ~/.profile
or ~/.bash* or something that is causing troubles.
I once spent many days brining online a G5 Dual CPU server to have issues in
which nothing was working right, no apps would build, lots of problems. It
turned out to be a bad CPU. I popped in a new CPU, and all my troubles went
away.
If you are game, I would suggest the following, as MacPorts truly does make
things easier, not harder:
1) Backup
2) Erase hard drive
3) Reinstall OS clean
4) Perform Apple Software Update, do not use the combo updaters
unless you verify MD5's on them and ensure you are using the correct one
5) Install Developer tools, just one package, with X11
6) Run Apple Software Update again
7) Install MacPorts
8) Run sudo port selfupdate
9) If everything now works, install a few simple ports to double check
10) Move your data back in place, testing along the way to make sure
nothing breaks
Far too many people are working with MacPorts in a perfectly reliably fashion
aside from known issues. Everyone at the least, has it installed, which is
where your system seems to be having trouble. I see no reason why that can't
be accomplished on your system, unless there are hardware issues, software
corruption, or silent data corruption problems.
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Scott (* For off-list contact, replace talklists@ with scott@ *)
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