Re: tcl expert needed

2012-06-03 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Bjarne, If I get you right you want to save yourself alot of typing! So, why not simply divide your code up a little. proc g_doSomething args { xinstall -d ${where}[dict get ${apache} libexecdir] /do a lot of stuff/ } Then in whatever phase you are in set where in the script and call

Re: How to start gnome ?

2012-01-16 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Micheal, I hate to discourage you, but you may not be able to run a gnome-session. I have tried before. But failed miserably. Even with the instructions give and having dbus started correctly, every time I tried starting a gnome-session the system log showed execution rights problems and woul

Re: remove old installations

2011-12-02 Thread Keith J. Schultz
I think there should be a policy change here. As it seems it is causing more work than it saves doing unclean builds. We could just simply add a option -u for unclean for those that need it. regards Keith. Am 02.12.2011 um 03:30 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > > On Dec 1, 2011, at 18:11, Ro

Re: gcc version mismatches

2011-11-17 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Kyle, Sorry, I do know of any courses or resources. Just like there are no true resources for mixing languages. Just good programming practices and experience. regards Keith. Am 17.11.2011 um 09:32 schrieb Kyle Husmann: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Keith J. Schultz >

Re: gcc version mismatches

2011-11-17 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Generally, mixing compilers should not be a problem to the experienced programmer as long as s/he is aware that they are mixing them. Naturally, using a single compiler is easier. Yet, as long as you are aware what you are doing and the "subtleties" of mixing compilers and libraries y

Re: problem with the use of macports os x lion

2011-10-17 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 17.10.2011 um 20:53 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > > On Oct 17, 2011, at 07:56, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > >> On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:11 AM, François Laenen wrote: >>> I'm feeling a bit desperate since I updated for Mac Os X Lion 10.7, just >>> because the extraction process, the "tar" command, does no

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Sam, I a little something as a important side note. MacTeX does work well with Macports. You have to change the config-file of MacPorts to look for the existence of the MacTeX binaries. Sorry, I can not remember which. Of course It may not work anymore. At least I am happy with MacTeX.

Re: texlive-basic update broken

2011-08-10 Thread Keith J. Schultz
th" that I did not say nor intend. regards Keith. Am 10.08.2011 um 11:48 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:06, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> All I was trying to point out is that what ever source macports is >> distributing

Re: texlive-basic update broken

2011-08-10 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Aug 10, 2011 at 01:56:31AM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Basically, TeXLive has been frozen since the end of May. >> So, any updates were not from the normal main TexLive distribution, >> but from the development test side! >> >> Sooo, any problems are to be expe

Re: texlive-basic update broken

2011-08-09 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, Maybe someone should put this all in perspective. Basically, TeXLive has been frozen since the end of May. So, any updates were not from the normal main TexLive distribution, but from the development test side! Sooo, any problems are to be expected with such a distribution and shou

Reply-To list :WAS: Re: index.php files ignored

2011-03-21 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Ryan, All, I have read the article. But, The FROM field already shows the author of the mail. Reply-to is their IF the reply is to go somewhere else. This is especially true of list-servs. IHMO it is normal and natural for the reply to a listserv

Re: index.php files ignored

2011-03-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi, I have to disagree here. I am on several list and when I hit reply my reply goes to the list! If I want to contact someone privately I can klick on the sender and reply to them. Why this list-serv thinks that the replies should be sent privately is a mystery to me! One would think that answe

Re: Xcode 4

2011-03-12 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 12.03.2011 um 23:24 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > On Mar 12, 2011, at 00:56, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > [snip, snip] >> Over here in Germany Xcode 4 only cost as much as a pack of >> cigarettes! > > I think the primary objection, from the people objecting, is no

Re: Xcode 4

2011-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi all, I think some have not quite, got my point. I , too have several Apples including a Apple IIe. The question is how much active development is still going on for those PPC machines? So slow down take a deep breath. regards K

Re: Xcode 4

2011-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
HI all, The way I see it Apple is opening up another market! If you look at the Mac App store you will see that Xcode 4 is the TOP selling App! Which means that their are a lot of developers that are not registered developers. Over here in Germa

Re: Xcode 4

2011-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Xcode 4 supports 10.5! Xcode 4 supports iOS 4.3! I do not see M$ offering a Development system for free. Lion is out in beta! regards Keith. Am 11.03.2011 um 12:22 schrieb Bayard Bell: > Agreed. Xcode 4 looks to be there for Lion support, so it's logical that it > would drop support f

Re: Xcode 4

2011-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
:51 schrieb Dominik Reichardt: > > > Am 11.03.2011 um 11:39 schrieb "Keith J. Schultz" : > >> >> >> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: >> >>> Von: "Keith J. Schultz" >>> Datum: 11. März 2011 09:59:08 M

Fwd: Xcode 4 issues

2011-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "Keith J. Schultz" > Datum: 11. März 2011 10:36:03 MEZ > An: James Berry > Betreff: Re: Xcode 4 issues > > > Am 11.03.2011 um 02:16 schrieb James Berry: > >> Sorry for the cross-post, but as this issue ha

Fwd: Xcode 4

2011-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "Keith J. Schultz" > Datum: 11. März 2011 09:59:08 MEZ > An: Dominik Reichardt > Betreff: Re: Xcode 4 > > Hi Dominik, > > > Am 10.03.2011 um 23:45 schrieb Dominik Reichardt: > >> >>> I h

Fwd: Xcode 4

2011-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "Keith J. Schultz" > Datum: 11. März 2011 09:48:49 MEZ > An: Rainer Müller > Betreff: Re: Xcode 4 > > Hi All, > > I do not have many port installed right now! > No problem running Xcode 4 with por

Fwd: Xcode 4

2011-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "Keith J. Schultz" > Datum: 11. März 2011 09:44:54 MEZ > An: gsslist+macpo...@anthropohedron.net > Betreff: Re: Xcode 4 > > Hi All, > > Rumors are exactly, what they are rumors. > > 1) Xcode is

Re: Xcode 4

2011-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 11.03.2011 um 10:28 schrieb Panayotis Katsaloulis: > > > I believe it should be important to keep PPC compatibility and somehow > automate the process of "keeping" the old SDK files... PPC is DEAD! If you need to support PPC keep Xcode 3 around. Xcode 3 and Xcode 4 can be installed

Re: perl5, perl5.* changes

2011-02-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 27.02.2011 um 16:44 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > [snip, snip, snip] > Right, but users with problems file tickets (which I spend time sorting and > assigning) and write to the mailing list (which I spend time reading and > replying to), and I know you and other team members do too, so there is an

Re: MacPorts without root privileges: how?

2011-02-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
First Off, Thany Ryan for passing on my other post. I FORGOT again to reply all! ARRGH!! Am 10.02.2011 um 21:14 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > On Feb 10, 2011, at 14:02, Gf B wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> Some ports like dbus install system daemons. These daemons

Re: yelp will not install

2010-12-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
O.K. I can live with that. Forgot, that universal can mean a mix of i386, 64 and ppc and not just i386 and 64. Any suggestions what to view the xml gnome docs with? regards Keith. Am 12.12.2010 um 01:11 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > > On Dec 11, 2010, at 16:57, Keith J. Schultz

Re: yelp will not install

2010-12-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 12.12.2010 um 00:31 schrieb Daniel J. Luke: > On Dec 11, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> >> When I executed sudo port install yelp >> port started installing a lot of port that where already installed as >> universals. Then it first computed the d

yelp will not install

2010-12-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Something strange happened. I had gnome installed via macports. I wanted to look at the docs for gnome. They are in docbook format. So I decided to install yelp! When I executed sudo port install yelp port started installing a lot of port that where already installed as universals. Th

Re: gnome starter

2010-12-03 Thread Keith J. Schultz
schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > > On Dec 3, 2010, at 06:29, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >> Where is the DISPLAY be set? Has to be something like /tmp/lauch >> where do I get it from? > > I am given to believe the operating system will set it to the correct value >

Re: gnome starter

2010-12-03 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, But all this is the crux! Under SL and L we are not suppose to use .xinitrc. Then again using .xinitrd.d scripts do not help either. The goal is not to get a different window manager, but instead gnome running. There seem to be conflicts between la

Re: gnome starter

2010-12-03 Thread Keith J . Schultz
OOOpps, forgot reply all! Hi io, See also my next post(s). Lets see. Am 02.12.2010 um 18:26 schrieb io: > According to a suggestion from Andrea, I used a simple .xinitrc: > > exec twm > /opt/local/bin/metacity & > > Then in MacOsX terminal by command startx below I had: > > To execute a fil

Re: gnome starter

2010-12-01 Thread Keith J. Schultz
e to be change in order for it to work. Could some here on the list please say whether they have gnome running and if so what they have done to get it running. regards Keith. Am 01.12.2010 um 08:10 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > > On Nov 26, 2010, at 03:34, Keith J. Schultz wrote

Re: xterm hangs - help needed

2010-11-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mike, Under Snow Leopard you are not suppose to set DISPLAY as long as you are using launchd. Setting DISPLAY will screw things up! Once you have a xterm you can get the DIISPLAY out of it and pass that on. From the Terminal I started a couple of xterms and a

Re: gnome starter

2010-11-26 Thread Keith J . Schultz
Hi Andrea, Now, I am really getting confused here. According to the wiki for gnome on Macports we are not suppose to use the ~/.xinitrc, but use .xinitrc.d instead. On my side I am using Snow Leopard 10.6.5, Xcode 2.5, ports up to date, Xquartz 2.5.3 not in

Re: gnome starter

2010-11-25 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Io, I do admit that I have no direct need for gnome, though I do want to try it out. I agree with you that there has not been a satisfying answer on how to get gnome working through Macports. I am trying to figure it out. Maybe someone who has gnome running c

Re: gnome starter

2010-11-25 Thread Keith J . Schultz
Hi All, Sorry, for getting to this so late, but I wanted to try a few things myself and do not much time. To the problem of the Display being in use and RANDR message. Evidently, the startup of X.app and XQuartz have changed since Leopard may be even Tiger

Re: xfig / date / libintl problem on a MacBook Pro

2010-11-05 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi John, Nobody, said that MacPort is completely bug free. But, it is not a buggy system anymore. Some of its problem are part of a complicated system of port distribution. The system is getting better and better. There is no fool proof system for the work what MacPorts d

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-11-05 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Ryan, The problem is that the Tex-Live is a static system as such. The binaries do seem to change for year to year. At least as far as I have noticed. But, many of the Tex…-packages are updated regulary. Such as polyglossia for example. There are no por

Re: xfig / date / libintl problem on a MacBook Pro

2010-11-05 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi John, Nobody, here has anything against questions or questioning policy, but you are definately wrong in stating that MacPorts is a "buggy software scheme". Quite the contrary is true. Have you used Fink? Fink has in the past screw my entire system big time! I

Re: xfig / date / libintl problem on a MacBook Pro

2010-11-05 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Though the MacPort experts, may disagree with me, I would never suggest migrating MacPorts! I always start MacPorts out with a fresh install on any new machine or new major OS version. It saves a lot of headaches. The only thing you loose is time in

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-11-05 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Dan, First off. I just use the MacTeX distribution directly. I am a casual MacPorts users. Am 04.11.2010 um 20:33 schrieb Dan Ports: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 09:39:58AM +0100, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> I have a few points question: >> 1) Th

Fwd: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-11-04 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "Keith J. Schultz" > Datum: 4. November 2010 09:39:58 MEZ > An: Dan Ports > Betreff: Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive > > Hi, > > I have a few points question: > 1) The tex-live

Fwd: Unable to upgrade Port

2010-10-29 Thread Keith J. Schultz
> On Oct 29, 2010, at 02:38, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >> Hi Ted, >> >> It may be a pain, but to be on the safe side I would suggest to simply >> reinstall your Macports from scratch, because alot port might/seemed to >> be link to that >&g

Fortran, Macports and Apple compiler was:Re: py26-numpy install issues - ld: symbol(s) not found

2010-10-04 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Though I am not into compilers to deep, I have been thinking about of the problems with pyx-numpy. Would it not be easier to have all things needing Fortran run over the g95-compiler than the full gcc version distributed by Macports. Or does the g95 fortran compiler suffer from the sa

Re: numpy & non-Apple gcc?

2010-09-21 Thread Keith J. Schultz
only problem is bootstrapping the gfortran compiler. But, I do not know the intrinsics of gcc and the gfortran compiler. regards Keith. Am 21.09.2010 um 15:40 schrieb Michael Dickens: > On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:06 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi All, Is there not a way to get of m

Re: py26-numpy +gcc44 requires gcc45 variant of atlas

2010-09-16 Thread Keith J . Schultz
Hi Jeff, Am 15.09.2010 um 21:14 schrieb Jeff Singleton: > Well ... > > I can honestly say, I get all of your points. Not that I didn't before, but > it is definitely clear now. > > I am even less of a developer that the newest maintainer here, so I can only > point out what doesn't seem cor

Perl5, dependent install, Version, and variants

2010-02-15 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, I have a several of questions so please bear with me. I needed wget and decided to finally start installing macport on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, last week. All was fine. I noticed wget has a lib-dependancy on perl5. To my surpi

Re: plans for 64bit support

2007-12-12 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Am 11.12.2007 um 12:54 schrieb Jochen Küpper: Hi Everybody, On 11.12.2007, at 12:23, Ryan Schmidt wrote: [...] I totally agree with Ryan's argumentation on avoiding to many distinct lines of binaries and would suggest the people that are interested in 64 bit support or w

Avahi upgrade fails

2007-09-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, I tried to upgrade avahi and it fail because it did not find py25-gtk. So I activated it and other py25 stuff install. Then I got a error that xorg was not found. I force upgrade xorg- utils-macros and xorg-xproto. Still no avail. I then lo

Re: X issues

2007-08-15 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Stefan, What version of the X11 App are you using. do you have the latest update installed. I have a Powerbook G4, X11 1.1.3, gnome and things work for me. What does your .xinitrc look like? Are you using the quarz-wm in proxy mode? Stereo turn

Re: Problem installing gnome-doc-utils

2007-08-15 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mark, the main difference between sync and selfupadte is that selfupdate check if there is a newer port version and if so upgrades it. selfupdate does a sync before it upgrades. sync brings the local ports list uptodate so that port can do its thing wit

Problem with p5-xml-sax

2007-08-10 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi, Due to a disk error I had to rebuild everything. While installing gnome port has not been able to fetch p5-xml-sax or at least part of it for two days now. See below for the error messages. Can anyone help. It can not be that so many site are down for so long. It looks l

Macports, port upgarde and depenadncies definately flawed

2007-07-25 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, To add to the on-going discussion. I just did: sudo port -f upgrade gnome-user-docs I get the following output Warning: Uninstall forced. Proceeding despite dependencies. ---> Deactivating libart_lgpl 2.3.19_1 ---> Uninstalling libart_lg

Macports upgrade problem

2007-07-24 Thread Keith J . Schultz
Hi All, Well I guess my basic question is what is the best way to upgrade. I just tried: sudo port -d - R upgrade gnome users-docs After a endless wait I get: ... ... DEBUG: gnome-user-docs 2.18.2_0 is installed DEBUG: Not following dependencies D

Macports dependency build (Suggestion)

2007-07-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, I have noticed that port goes through the dependency list sequentially, and build accordingly. This is actually O.K., but it would be nice I the ports with the most "dependants" first. This way if any thing happens before the build is complete I can build others. It shoul

Installing Gnome and "Out of Memory" xml2po

2007-07-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, I have been trying to install Gnome for some time now and ran into the problem that in the port zenity and file-roller I would get the following error message: Making all in help if ! test -d bg/; then mkdir bg/; fi if [ -f "C/zenity.xml" ]; then d="../"; else d="/opt/local/

Macports Gnome does not install

2007-07-12 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, I have been trying to get the gnome port to install for the last week to no avail! Has anybody gotten it to install? I have a Powerbook and little disk realestate, so I would hate to use fink. Can anyone give me pointers who to contact about it. Do I have to go ov

Frustration building Gnome the second

2007-07-10 Thread Keith J . Schultz
Hi Everybody, I have been trying to install Gnome on my Powerbook G4 (1.5GB RAM) MacOS 10.4.10. After resolving a redefine N_. I come to the next hurdle: When it comes to installing filer-roller I get the following: if ! test -d bg/; then mkdir bg/; fi if [ -f "C/file-

Frustration building Gnome

2007-07-09 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, I have been trying to install Gnome on my Powerbook G4 (1.5GB RAM) MacOS 10.4.10. After resolving a redefine N_. I come to the next hurdle: When it comes to installing filer-roller I get the following: if ! test -d bg/; then mkdir bg/; fi if [ -f "C/file-