Problem installing libcompat

[Boey Maun Suang]

Hi Gary,

I don't understand why deleting the distfile helped; my only  
suggestion is that the "sudo port clean libcompat" didn't actually  
work properly, and the distfile deletion forced it.  I also don't  
imagine that you'd had a different distfile when the build was  
failing, as it would have failed the checksum step, so I don't think  
that that was a problem.  As for fetching from distfiles- 
od.opendarwin.org, that is definitely the only place from which  
libcompat is currently distributed, but it (along with distfiles from  
quite a few other ports) ought to be copied onto macports.org as that  
server will be shut down sooner or later; there are other people  
working on that, I think, so I'll see how they think it should be  
dealt with.

Kind regards,


Maun Suang

On 19/04/2007, at 13:55, Gary Ross wrote:

> Hello,
> Thanks for your help.
>
> OK. This is what I did:
>
> I deleted the
>
>  /opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/libcompat/libcompat-4.6.2- 
> RELEASE.tar.bz2
>
> file manually.
>
> Then I did:
>
> sudo port -d -v install libcompat
>
> and it worked fine.
>
> I'm sure this is not the correct way to do it, but it seemed to work.
>
> Obviously when the
> libcompat-4.6.2-RELEASE.tar.bz2
> was found to be missing it tried to fetch it. But at first it  
> couldn't find the file because it couldn't connect:
>
> --->  Attempting to fetch libcompat-4.6.2-RELEASE.tar.bz2 from  
> http://distfiles-od.opendarwin.org/libcompat
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time      
> Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent     
> Left  Speed
>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:01:01  
> --:--:--     0
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: HTTP response code said error
> --->  Attempting to fetch libcompat-4.6.2-RELEASE.tar.bz2 from  
> http://distfiles-msn.opendarwin.org/libcompat
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time      
> Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent     
> Left  Speed
>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01  
> --:--:--     0
> DEBUG: Fetching failed:: HTTP response code said error
> --->  Attempting to fetch libcompat-4.6.2-RELEASE.tar.bz2 from  
> http://distfiles-od.opendarwin.org/
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time      
> Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent     
> Left  Speed
> 100 25877  100 25877    0     0  26386      0 --:--:-- --:--:--  
> --:--:-- 48505
>
> Should it still be fetching from
> http://distfiles-od.opendarwin.org/
> ?
>
> Perhaps this is the root of my original problem. I think it wasn't  
> fetching the latest version until I forced it to do so by deleting  
> the bz2 file.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 12:26 AM, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
>
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> On 19/04/2007, at 00:58, Gary Ross wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, I still get the same error after doing this:
>>>
>>>   506  sudo /opt/local/bin/port -v selfupdate
>>>   507  sudo port clean libcompat
>>>   508  sudo port -d -v install libcompat
>>>
>>> powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1:
>>>
>>> libcompat.1.dylib: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Is your machine Intel or PowerPC ?
>>
>> This seems odd to me.  I'm running on Intel (and Mac OS X 10.4.9),  
>> but it seems to me that the architecture really shouldn't make a  
>> difference; I've checked against the PPC Darwin sources online,  
>> and there doesn't seem to be a difference between the bsd.*.mk  
>> files that are called, and I'd be very surprised if gcc was  
>> behaving differently between platforms in this way.  Still, it is  
>> a possibility, so if you post the output of "sudo -td install  
>> libcompat" after cleaning libcompat (or from your original "sudo  
>> port -d -v install libcompat" if you still have it), that might  
>> help me figure out what's happening.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Maun Suang
>>
>> -- 
>> Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname)
>> Email: boeyms at macports.org
>>
>>
>>
>

-- 
Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname)
Email: boeyms at macports.org