<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:32 PM, j. van den hoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:veedeehjay@gmail.com" target="_blank">veedeehjay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">before I start: yes, I have seen and read ticket #53414. I did not help:<br><br>I tried to to to selfupdate from 2.3.5 to 2.4.1 today (MacOS 10.11.6). it failed with<br><br>configure: === configuring in vendor/tcl/unix (/opt/local/var/macports/sourc<wbr>es/<a href="https://api.thetopinbox.com/track/v2/link?id=9b902c74-2550-40e4-a419-f1c2ab67d41d&url=http%3A%2F%2Frsync.macports.org%2Frelease%2Fbase%2Fvendor%2Ftcl%2Funix" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">rsync.macports.org/release/<wbr>base/vendor/tcl/unix</a>)<br>configure: error: no configure script found in vendor/tcl/unix<br>Command failed: CC=/usr/bin/cc OBJC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure --prefix='/opt/local' --with-install-user='root' --with-install-group='wheel' --with-directory-mode='0755' --enable-readline && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1<br>Exit code: 1<br><br>[...] <br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">what am I missing?<br><br></blockquote></div><div>I think I have the same problem as joerg. <div><br></div><div>Based on previous discussion here, and ticket 53414, I tried two fixes: </div><div>1)  Revert to default macports.conf: <br><br>root@recluse:~$cd  /opt/local/etc/macports<br><br>root@recluse:~$cp macports.conf.default macports.conf<br><br>My port -v self attempt ended (as it always does now) with:<br>







<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-s1">configure: === configuring in vendor/tcl/unix (/opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/release/base/vendor/tcl/unix">rsync.macports.org/release/base/vendor/tcl/unix</a>)<br></span><span class="gmail-s1">configure: error: no configure script found in vendor/tcl/unix<br></span><span class="gmail-s1">Command failed: cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/release/base">rsync.macports.org/release/base</a> && CC=/usr/bin/cc OBJC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure --prefix='/opt/local' --with-install-user='root' --with-install-group='wheel' --with-directory-mode='0755' --enable-readline && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1<br></span><span class="gmail-s1">Exit code: 1<br></span><span class="gmail-s1">Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed<br></span><span class="gmail-s1">To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:<br></span><span class="gmail-s1">    <a href="http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets">http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets</a><br></span><span class="gmail-s1">Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed</span></blockquote>






<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">Since this looks like a softlink problem, I followed Mihai's suggestion to "</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">make </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">sure rsync_options includes the "l" flag" and now I have it: </span></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-s1">root@recluse:~$grep options  /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf <br></span>rsync_options           -rtzvl --delete-after</blockquote><p class="gmail-p1">








</p></div><div class="gmail_extra">Failure mode was the same, as above. <br><br>Any further thoughts or suggestions? My macports.conf is included as an attachment. (Would in-line have been better?) <br><br>tai<br><br>PS: Many thanks for making 17855 things possible with MacPorts. :) <br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">
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