Re: XeTeX depends on teTeX but I run TeXLive

2008-05-02 Thread James Sumners
Maybe the port is out-of-date. It wouldn't surprise me. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Christoph Bier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Sumners schrieb am 02.05.2008 17:36: > > > > Do you need to install XeTeX separately? According to [1] it is a > > standar

Re: XeTeX depends on teTeX but I run TeXLive

2008-05-02 Thread James Sumners
_ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological person

Re: teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

2008-04-29 Thread James Sumners
Edit the portfile. http://guide.macports.org/#development On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I do that? > Jerry > > > > On Apr 29, 2008, at 5:15 PM, James Sumners wrote: > > > I recommend changing the dependency to tex

Re: teTeX fails with probably unquoted path name containing spaces

2008-04-29 Thread James Sumners
> macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts b

Re: No match for mactex found

2008-04-04 Thread James Sumners
Right. I forgot. And I use texlive :) On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Rainer Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Sumners wrote: > > > How about `port search teTeX`? > > > > teTeX is dead, use texlive. > > Rainer > -- James Sumners http://james.r

Re: No match for mactex found

2008-04-04 Thread James Sumners
How about `port search teTeX`? On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Charlse Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ port search MacTeX > No match for MacTeX found > > Can (should) I file a ticket? -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suf

Re: GCC compilation time

2008-03-21 Thread James Sumners
*grumbledamnnodefaultreplytolistgrumble* On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:01 AM, James Sumners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about `gcc -L/opt/local/include/gcc`? > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Alejandro Aragón > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1 h

Re: GCC compilation time

2008-03-20 Thread James Sumners
it's never going to end. > I'm on a MacBook Pro, Santa Rosa generation. Thank you all, > > aa -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that

Re: Wireless tools

2008-03-16 Thread James Sumners
n monitor mode (using iwconfig) > > > On Mar 16, 2008, at 11:33 AM, James Sumners wrote: > > > > > What are you looking to do? > > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Walt Scrivens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a port of Wireless Tools? I

Re: Wireless tools

2008-03-16 Thread James Sumners
rds, but I don't see anything similar > in "port list". I'm aware of the hidden "airport" program and that > won't work. > > Walt -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts

Re: Is HFS really "scary"?

2008-02-06 Thread James Sumners
se sensitive). > > At least modern Macs allow you to select case sensitivity as an > option, vs having to know (as you did in the past) that this meant > "UFS" instead of HFS (and all the problems that switching filesystem > types entirely came with). > > - Jordan --

Re: Is HFS really "scary"?

2008-02-06 Thread James Sumners
rus 10 & 11 can't run with case-sensitive filesystem. > HR Block TaxCut 2007 can't find images or XML files to function. > Feral Interactive - XIII - Game can't run when installed on case-sensitive > filesystem. > > And I keep finding more and more of them. :( >

Re: py25-pyx with texlive: works!

2008-02-05 Thread James Sumners
ss or the desire to be a port > maintainer, but I hope this info is useful for people looking to > upgrade ports from teTeX to texlive. I have also checked the pyx- > users list archives @ sourceforge, and the maintainers of pyx are > already using texlive. It shoul

Re: Can the port command take advantage of multiple cores?

2008-02-03 Thread James Sumners
cores in your > > computer). This > > Ryan> was added for MacPorts 1.6. > > > > Excellent, thanks. That makes it transparent even. ;-) > > > Well, that's what I thought happened. But now others are saying > there's an option in macports.conf that needs to be se

Re: gnumeric build issues again

2008-01-24 Thread James Sumners
stalling or deleting the > original MacPorts to fix this problem? > > Mike -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corru

Re: [macports] Building in a jail?

2008-01-24 Thread James Sumners
the port. -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a conditi

Re: gnumeric build issues again

2008-01-24 Thread James Sumners
] Error 2 > Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 > > > - > Michael J. Vollinger > Research Assistant > Ronald B. Gilmore XRF Lab > Dept. of Geosciences > 611 North Pleasant Street > University of Massachusetts > Amherst, MA 01003 > > > > > > _

Re: [macports] Building in a jail?

2008-01-23 Thread James Sumners
Forgot to send it to the list. Again! On Jan 23, 2008 10:17 PM, James Sumners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I have successfully built x86 binaries of > TeXmacs, patched to depend on texlive ;), and texlive. > > > On Jan 23, 2008 5:14 PM, Ryan Schm

Re: [macports] Building in a jail?

2008-01-23 Thread James Sumners
Forgot to include the list. *grumble* On Jan 23, 2008 4:21 PM, James Sumners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was concerned about configuration files outside of /opt/local. But > now that I think about it, even if there are any, the Intel port won't > have a different config

[macports] Building in a jail?

2008-01-23 Thread James Sumners
;t afford to be without a LaTeX environment right now. So, is there any way I can "jail" a new installation of macports? If I can build everything successfully, I want to be able to delete the old version and move the new one to the standard location. -- James Sumners http://james.roo

[macports] The teTeX package should be phased out

2008-01-13 Thread James Sumners
maintained upstream, and new releases have been discontinued since May 2006. The author of teTeX even suggests that users move on to using texLive. So I think it would be wise to evaluate the inclusion of, and dependencies on, teTeX. [1] -- http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13911

[macports] Ticket #12962

2008-01-08 Thread James Sumners
Would someone with some authority take a look at this ticket. I don't think the maintainer is much caring about it. I've added a portfile patch to the ticket. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12962 -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All gov

Re: problem using port to install gnucash on mac 10.5

2008-01-01 Thread James Sumners
t i get this; -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condit

Warning when installing TeXmacs

2007-11-05 Thread James Sumners
! - -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which

Re: avahi port installs org.freedesktop.* files

2007-10-28 Thread James Sumners
.org/ticket/177 > > On 26 Oct 2007, at 17:42, James Sumners wrote: > > > I didn't look back at the wiki to verify /System versus /Library. I > > just went with what the port was trying to do. > > > > Do you want me to file the report? Or would you like to? C

Re: Error installing `gnome-desktop`

2007-10-26 Thread James Sumners
That seems to have solved it. Thanks. On 10/26/07, Daniel J. Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 26, 2007, at 2:51 PM, James Sumners wrote: > > Any suggestions on working around the following error? > > ImportError: No module named _md5 > > > perhaps an undecla

Re: avahi port installs org.freedesktop.* files

2007-10-26 Thread James Sumners
]> wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:46, paul beard wrote: > > > On 10/26/07, James Sumners wrote: > > > >> I've been wrestling with MacPorts for the past couple days trying to > >> get Gnucash updated. During which, I've removed and reinstalled >

Re: Is there any value to packages? [was Re: Why no binaries?]

2007-10-26 Thread James Sumners
would much rather we continue working on perfecting that, rather than > introducing ways to cross-compile things, a capability which would > probably not be very well tested and therefore buggy. -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/ "All governments suffer a recurring p

Re: Is there any value to packages? [was Re: Why no binaries?]

2007-10-26 Thread James Sumners
I don't understand. The point of binary packages is so that you, the end user, do not have to build them yourself. Thus eliminating the compile errors and making it an easier system to use. On 10/26/07, paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/26/07, James Sumne

Error installing `gnome-desktop`

2007-10-26 Thread James Sumners
Any suggestions on working around the following error? morla:/Users/jsumners root# port -fd install gnome-desktop DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/gnome/gnome-desktop DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsyn

Re: Is there any value to packages? [was Re: Why no binaries?]

2007-10-26 Thread James Sumners
pull down binary packages instead of source packages. On 10/26/07, paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/25/07, Daniel J. Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:11 PM, James Sumners wrote: > > > Why doesn't MacPorts supply binary

avahi port installs org.freedesktop.* files

2007-10-26 Thread James Sumners
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Removing these files is not covered in the MacPorts uninstall instructions on the wiki. The instruct the user to remove /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* . So my question is, should avahi install files named as such? Or should it install them as "org.macport

Re: Why no binaries?

2007-10-25 Thread James Sumners
t; wrote: > On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:11 PM, James Sumners wrote: > > Why doesn't MacPorts supply binary packages? > > No one has worked on it recently. > > If you're interested, I'm sure we

Why no binaries?

2007-10-24 Thread James Sumners
r a G4, G5, or Intel processor, but those can't be too numerous. Even with all that, it isn't like the scale would be as massive as Debian. If work is being done to implement this, how advanced is it? Could we expect to see it soon? -- James Sumners http://james.roomfullofmirrors.c