Re: gedit runtime error

2008-11-18 Thread William Davis
On Nov 19, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: On Nov 18, 2008, at 15:35, Brandon Allbery wrote: On 2008 Nov 18, at 14:18, William Davis wrote: Ive just installed gedit using macports and get this runtime error: macintosh:~ frstan$ gedit & [1] 31566 macintosh:~ frstan$ Xlib: extensi

Re: Unable to install packages

2008-11-18 Thread Julio Lajara
Yes, I did. This was one of the first things I did when I completed the install and it worked fine. Thanks for the suggestion. William Davis wrote: On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Julio Lajara wrote: Hi everyone, Im new to using Macports and am having a few issues. I inst

Re: Unable to install packages

2008-11-18 Thread Julio Lajara
That worked. The compile/install process is insanely slow but its working now. Thanks. Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 18, 2008, at 23:00, Julio Lajara wrote: Hi everyone, Im new to using Macports and am having a few issues. I installed Xcode and setup my .profile for accessing port from the co

Re: Unable to install packages

2008-11-18 Thread William Davis
On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Julio Lajara wrote: Hi everyone, Im new to using Macports and am having a few issues. I installed Xcode and setup my .profile for accessing port from the command line but Im unable to install any packages. It looks like it cant find some macport components to

Unable to install packages

2008-11-18 Thread Julio Lajara
Hi everyone, Im new to using Macports and am having a few issues. I installed Xcode and setup my .profile for accessing port from the command line but Im unable to install any packages. It looks like it cant find some macport components to compile/configure packages but Im new to Mac in gener

Re: Unable to install packages

2008-11-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 18, 2008, at 23:00, Julio Lajara wrote: Hi everyone, Im new to using Macports and am having a few issues. I installed Xcode and setup my .profile for accessing port from the command line but Im unable to install any packages. It looks like it cant find some macport components to comp

Re: mpfr fetch problem

2008-11-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 18, 2008, at 22:42, Altoine Barker wrote: Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 18, 2008, at 17:09, Altoine Barker wrote: My SPECS: Mac OSX 10.5.5 PPC G5 Dual Mac OSX 10.4.11 PPC G4 XCode 3.1.1XCode 3.1.1 MacPorts 1.600 (Binary)MacPorts 1.600 (Binary)

Re: mpfr fetch problem

2008-11-18 Thread Altoine Barker
Ryan, Thank you. That worked. I vow to never make that mistake again. -Altoine Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Nov 18, 2008, at 17:09, Altoine Barker wrote: > >> My SPECS: >> >> Mac OSX 10.5.5 PPC G5 Dual Mac OSX 10.4.11 PPC G4 >> XCode 3.1.1XCode 3.1.1 >> MacPorts 1.60

Re: Unable to install macports

2008-11-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 18, 2008, at 21:02, Oussama Sekkat wrote: I am trying to install the macports package but I get the following error during the last step: "The following install failed: run postflight script for MacPorts-1.6.0. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance." I am using MAC OSX v 1

Re: Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

2008-11-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 15, 2008, at 17:52, Jordan Hubbard wrote: On Nov 15, 2008, at 14:36, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MacPorts still supports Tiger so it's useful to provide solutions that work there. Well, as I said, I have not run it in many years so it's a bit harder for me to even com

Re: mpfr fetch problem

2008-11-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 18, 2008, at 17:09, Altoine Barker wrote: My SPECS: Mac OSX 10.5.5 PPC G5 Dual Mac OSX 10.4.11 PPC G4 XCode 3.1.1XCode 3.1.1 MacPorts 1.600 (Binary)MacPorts 1.600 (Binary) I can not fetch the mpfr port. It just hangs there attempting to fetch

Re: Removing obsolete distfiles but keeping current ones

2008-11-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 18, 2008, at 17:39, Michael Glauser wrote: On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:33, Michael Glauser wrote: What would be the correct way to request something: "port -f uninstall inactive" would also clean out old dist ([port].tar.bz2) files? Seems li

Re: Removing obsolete distfiles but keeping current ones

2008-11-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:33, Michael Glauser wrote: What would be the correct way to request something: "port -f uninstall inactive" would also clean out old dist ([port].tar.bz2) files? Seems like there is an ever growing mess there. You can clean out all of a port's distfiles with su

mpfr fetch problem

2008-11-18 Thread Altoine Barker
My SPECS: Mac OSX 10.5.5 PPC G5 Dual Mac OSX 10.4.11 PPC G4 XCode 3.1.1XCode 3.1.1 MacPorts 1.600 (Binary)MacPorts 1.600 (Binary) I can not fetch the mpfr port. It just hangs there attempting to fetch but not succeeding. I went to the www.mpfr.org websi

Re: gedit runtime error

2008-11-18 Thread William Davis
On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: That's not an error. It's just letting you know that the server doesn't support RANDR... and it's not even clear what RANDR should do in XQuartz, so there's no plan on implementing it. On Nov 18, 2008, at 11:18, William Davis wrote:

gedit runtime error

2008-11-18 Thread William Davis
Ive just installed gedit using macports and get this runtime error: macintosh:~ frstan$ gedit & [1] 31566 macintosh:~ frstan$ Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/ launch-AEpBLV/:0". gedit (2.24.0) appears to run ok though. William Davis frstanATbellsouthDOTnet Mac OS X.5.5 Darwi

Re: Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

2008-11-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-11-15 10:46:09 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > No, DO use $*, just remember to quote it like you would any other > variable expansion involving filenames. I don't understand this answer. If $* is used, then there is no way to make the difference between cmd a b and cmd "a b" be