[MacPorts] #40382: Fails, building Git on Intel, Tiger Mac Mini

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#40382: Fails, building Git on Intel, Tiger Mac Mini
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  Reporter:  dgringo1@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  base        |    Version:  2.1.3
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
      Port:  git-core    |
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Comment (by dgringo1@…):

 Replying to [comment:14 larryv@…]:
 > Replying to [comment:13 dgringo1@…]:
 > > Following the installation again, there was no 'configure' program to
 > > run... although there had been for the previous efforts.
 >
 > So are you installing from source or from a package?
 >
 > - If you are [http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.source
 installing from source], you need to follow the instructions in the Guide
 exactly. That is, download the latest tarball, decompress it, and run
 configure/make/make install from inside the extracted directory. There
 most certainly is a `configure` script in there:
 > {{{
 > % curl -s https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.2.0.tar.bz2
 | pax -j '*configure'
 > MacPorts-2.2.0/configure
 > %
 > }}}
 > - If you are [http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.binary
 installing from a package], you can't do the configure/make/make install
 dance, because there are no configure scripts or makefiles. You should be
 able to start using it right away.
 >
 > Please describe //exactly// the steps you are taking to try and install
 MacPorts.

 Wow, yourselves often surprise me being up.  I am currently living in
 Chile, South America, so I erroneously think you've gone home or what-not
 -- discounting the 'delays' talking through your trac system.  :-/  ( I am
 an Anglo/yank too)

 I downloaded MacPorts-2.2.0-archive.tar.bz2 via Safari first, allowed the
 Mac to expand it and ran it from whatever directory it ended up being in
 (~/src/MacPorts-2.2.0-archive/).  (By the way, thanks for working with
 me!)  The time when configure worked, I just ran it and all was well, the
 second time it reported the confusion/missing application.

 I am going to curl it, as you show... although that 'pax' command is new
 to me and checking it out via 'man', I could not find detail on the '-j'
 switch :(.

 Same issue :(  I ended up with a 2.0.0 version (with a configure program)
 Let is triple check this...

 OK, I did the correct file BUT it does NOT have a configure program in it
 :(   I notice that 'archive' ends up at the end of the subdirectory.  Is
 that unexpected and related to why it is not working properly?

 {{{
 mm:~/Downloads dgringo$ cd /Volumes/MiscMac/basic\
 settings/MacPorts-2.2.0-archive
 mm:/Volumes/MiscMac/basic settings/MacPorts-2.2.0-archive dgringo$ ls
 Makefile        doc             dports
 base            doc-new         www
 mm:/Volumes/MiscMac/basic settings/MacPorts-2.2.0-archive dgringo$ ll
 total 8
 -rw-r-----    1 dgringo  dgringo   445 Mar  1  2009 Makefile
 drwxr-x--x   24 dgringo  dgringo   816 Sep  6 00:26 base/
 drwxr-x--x    5 dgringo  dgringo   170 Sep  6 00:26 doc/
 drwxr-x--x    7 dgringo  dgringo   238 Sep  6 00:26 doc-new/
 drwxr-x--x   49 dgringo  dgringo  1666 Sep  6 00:25 dports/
 drwxr-x--x   15 dgringo  dgringo   510 Jul 22 20:25 www/
 }}}

 Is there something very fundamentally wrong here, possibly at your end?

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40382#comment:16>
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