gcc43 installed corrupted receipt; made MacPorts unusable
Anders F Björklund
afb at macports.org
Thu Sep 13 23:20:43 PDT 2007
>> I don't know enough about tcl to understand why the original version
>> was unacceptable, and in particular, if it was unacceptable, why it
>> didn't blow up much earlier. What surprised me was that "port lint"
>> didn't find anything wrong, and that "port install" didn't complain
>> at all about the port, until the entire thing exploded during the
>> install phase. "port info" gave a slight clue when it printed
>> "(Variants: universal, darwin_8, powerpc, )" (the two variants didn't
>> show up, but there was a comma and a blank after the powerpc
>> variant). "port variants" similarly didn't show the two variants, but
>> had an extra blank line at the end.
>
> portlint.tcl doesn't check variants yet, but it's probably a good idea
> to have the rest of the port system know to check enough as to not
> corrupt the registry on faulty port installation anyway ?
"port lint" will now check variants too... Missing name is an error,
missing description a warning.
--anders
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