Re: Fixed: C compiler cannot create executables

2008-09-28 Thread Anders F Björklund
Martin Krischik wrote: >> He said it was 13MB. So my guess is that some script did a >> >> cp foo /usr/local >> >> expected that /usr/local already existed as a directory. >> > This is why the "--target-directory" was invented (at least for gnu's > cp). Very helpful for scripts. Also very helpfu

Re: Fixed: C compiler cannot create executables

2008-09-27 Thread Martin Krischik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 27.09.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Jeffrey Goldberg: > On Sep 26, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Michel Salim wrote: > >> Wonder if at some point /usr/local got erased, and then some script >> did a 'touch /usr/local' on your system, recreating it as a file. > > He s

Re: Fixed: C compiler cannot create executables

2008-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 26, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Michel Salim wrote: > Wonder if at some point /usr/local got erased, and then some script > did a 'touch /usr/local' on your system, recreating it as a file. He said it was 13MB. So my guess is that some script did a cp foo /usr/local expected that /usr/local alr

Re: Fixed: C compiler cannot create executables

2008-09-26 Thread Michel Salim
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Otto Roberson Bertsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Ryan for his very rapid and effective response! > > The culprit was that /usr/local/ was not a directory but instead a file. > That's very strange, but a sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local-off got me going > ag

Fixed: C compiler cannot create executables

2008-09-26 Thread Otto Roberson Bertsch
Thanks to Ryan for his very rapid and effective response! The culprit was that /usr/local/ was not a directory but instead a file. That's very strange, but a sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local-off got me going again. -- otto roberson ___ macports-users mai