strange response to selfupdate after installing 1.5

[Rob MacLeod]

Thanks Ryan,

On Aug 13, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Aug 13, 2007, at 18:20, Rob MacLeod wrote:
>
>> Just installed version 1.5 of macports (over top of an existing,  
>> older version) on an Intel mac and the selfupdate I tried failed  
>> with the following output:
>>
>> no suitable image found.  Did find:
>>         /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib:  
>> mach-o, but wrong architecture
>>     while executing
>> "load /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib"
>>     ("package ifneeded" script)
>>     invoked from within
>> "package_native require Pextlib 1.0"
>>     ("eval" body line 1)
>>     invoked from within
>> "eval package_native $args"
>>     (procedure "package" line 14)
>>     invoked from within
>> "package require Pextlib 1.0"
>>     (procedure "mportinit" line 365)
>>     invoked from within
>> "mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize ports system, no  
>> suitable image found.  Did find:
>>         /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib:  
>> mach-o, but wrong architecture
>>
>> I get this same response for any port command, even port all by  
>> itself.
>>
>> Sorry if this is old news but I cannot seem to find an email  
>> archive to search or an decent FAQ on the Wiki.  Any pointers to  
>> these resources would also be much appreciated.
>
> It sounds like part of your MacPorts installation is of the wrong  
> architecture. Have you recently migrated from a PowerPC Mac to an  
> Intel one, and used Migration Assistant to copy data from your old  
> machine, including /opt/local? If so, that's a likely reason for  
> this problem, and I recommend you move /opt/local aside and  
> reinstall MacPorts from scratch and then reinstall all your ports  
> so that they build for Intel.

Actually, I migrated from another Intel Mac, where I have  no such  
problems running port commands.  I have never used Macports on a PPC  
computer actually--I was a fink user then and migrated to Macports  
with my first Intel Mac.

I have not updated to 1.5 on the "good" machine though, and will see  
if it is that installation that breaks things.

Cheers
Rob

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