<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">What’s happening now is befuddling to me. Doing the step <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <em style="font-family: "Courier News", monospace; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;" class="">echo <a href="rsync://build.openmodelica.org/macports/" class="">rsync://build.openmodelica.org/macports/</a> >> /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf</em><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as root (sudo su - ) seems to have worked, as /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf now ends with:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar" class="">rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar</a> [default]</div><div class=""> <a href="rsync://build-openmodelica.org/macports/" class="">rsync://build-openmodelica.org/macports/</a></div><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>However, continuing as root, doing the step </div><div><br class=""></div><div> <em style="font-family: "Courier News", monospace; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;" class="">port selfupdate</em><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">gives:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Could there be some issue with MacPorts access to the openmodelica repository?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Using rsync is completely new to me, and I don’t even know how to find out whether a particular source exists.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Apr2018, at 1:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On Apr 7, 2018, at 11:27, Murray Eisenberg wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Thanks, that seems to have worked.<br class=""><br class="">To do the remaining steps…<br class=""><br class="">port selfupdate<br class="">port install gcc44 # With the addition of llvm/clang as the default compiler in XCode, many ports now fail to build unless you force GCC to be used<br class="">port install openmodelica-devel +libraries +clang <br class=""><br class="">…should I still stay in that root shell?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">It does say in their instructions, before those commands, "run (as root):"<br class=""><br class="">You will need to be root to selfupdate and install ports, but usually you should do that by putting "sudo" in front of those commands.<br class=""><br class="">It's unfortunate they're suggesting you should install an obsolete port like gcc44. The last version of gcc44 was released 6 years ago and we don't support it on High Sierra and later. The current stable version of gcc is gcc7.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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