Gsoc 18 Project | Collect build statistics

Jackson Isaac ijackson at macports.org
Tue Apr 24 16:43:21 UTC 2018


On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Vishnu <vishnum1998 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried using these
>
> mkdir -p /opt/mports
> $ cd /opt/mports
> $ git clone https://github.com/macports/macports-base.git
> $ git checkout v2.4.3  # skip this if you want to use the development
> version
>
> Build and Install MacPorts
>
> MacPorts uses autoconf and makefiles for installation. These commands will
> build and install MacPorts to /opt/local. You can add --prefix to
> ./configure to relocate MacPorts to another directory if needed.
>
> $ cd /opt/mports/macports-base
> $ ./configure --enable-readline
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
> $ make distclean
>
> while trying to configure i am getting :    configure: error: mtree not
> found.
>
> How to proceed?
>
> I think i need to install additional files.
> Can someone help?

Looks like mtree[1] is not installed in your machine.

Could you try running 'sudo apt-get install tree' before configure ?

I also found one answer at [2]. Haven't checked though.

[1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/fmtree.8.html
[2] https://serverfault.com/a/690089



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Jackson Isaac


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