Problem installing readline

[Thomas Schober]

Can you tell me where i can find this portfile ? i am a little new to
MacPorts. Before i used fink.
Thanks

2007/8/14, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
> On Aug 14, 2007, at 00:13, Thomas Schober wrote:
>
> > 2007/8/14, Ryan Schmidt:
> >
> >> On Aug 12, 2007, at 09:53, Thomas Schober wrote:
> >>
> >>> i have a iMac G5 17" PPC. I am trying to install readline, but i
> >>> get these errors :
> >>>
> >>> --->  Staging readline into destroot
> >>> Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: no such file or
> >>> directory
> >>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> >>>
> >>> However on my intel macbook it worked fine. But i cant get it to
> >>> work on my PPC. Both Computers have Mac OS Tiger 10.4.10 Installed.
> >>
> >> How odd. I don't know what it's talking about.
> >>
> >> Can you try "sudo port clean readline" and then "sudo port -dv
> >> install readline" and see what it says?
> >
> > thanks for your answer. It goes good until this point. Then this
> > happens :
> [snip]
> > DEBUG: Executing proc-post-org.macports.destroot-destroot-0
> > DEBUG: delete: /opt/local/var/macports/build/
> > _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel
> > _readline/work/destroot/opt/local/share/info/dir
> > Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: no such file or
> > directory
> > Warning: the following items did not execute (for readline):
> > org.macports.activate org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
> > Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
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> too, not just to me.
>
> It looks like this line in the post-destroot proc may be triggering
> the problem:
>
>      delete ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/dir
>
> You could try removing that line from the portfile to see if that
> really is the culprit. If it is, then the question would be, why does
> this not cause a problem on your Intel Mac or my Intel Mac? I guess
> on your PPC iMac share/info/dir never gets created in the first
> place, and therefore is not there to be deleted. But why? And is
> there a way to write a delete command that doesn't complain if it
> fails? What's the difference between "delete" and "file delete"? (You
> could try "file delete" instead of "delete" at the beginning of the
> line and see if that makes a difference.)
>
>