Problem installing readline

[Thomas Schober]

I already tried this solution, but the line :

>>  delete ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/dir

is not in the portfile. There is a loop, which deletes a bunch of
files and directories. They seem to be created dynamically. So when i
remove the line, nothing is deleted anymore.
It seems that you have to insert a delete command, which ignores errors.

2007/8/15, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
> On Aug 14, 2007, at 10:59, Thomas Schober wrote:
>
> > 2007/8/14, Thomas Schober:
> >
> >> 2007/8/14, Ryan Schmidt:
> >>
> >>> On Aug 14, 2007, at 02:57, Thomas Schober wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 2007/8/14, Ryan Schmidt:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Aug 14, 2007, at 02:25, Thomas Schober wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> 2007/8/14, Ryan Schmidt:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Aug 14, 2007, at 01:41, Thomas Schober wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> # $Id: Portfile 22478 2007-03-02 05:16:40Z
> >>>>>>>> pipping at macports.org $
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> PortSystem 1.0
> >>>>>>>> name          readline-5
> >>>>>>>> set shortname readline
> >>>>>>>> version               5.0.005
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> [snip]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Oh. Your readline port is very out of date. Probably all your
> >>>>>>> other
> >>>>>>> ports are too. You need to get into the habit of running
> >>>>>>> "sudo port
> >>>>>>> sync" before you begin installing ports on a given day, to
> >>>>>>> pull the
> >>>>>>> new port definitions from our server. readline is currently at
> >>>>>>> version 5.2.001, not 5.0.005. Sync, then try installing readline
> >>>>>>> again. Presumably this problem has already been fixed. Also
> >>>>>>> run "port
> >>>>>>> outdated" to see what other ports you may need to update now.
> >>>>>>> Also do
> >>>>>>> "sudo port selfupdate" occasionally to make sure you have the
> >>>>>>> latest
> >>>>>>> version of MacPorts base.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ok, i will try this when i am at home today evening. I synced
> >>>>>> about
> >>>>>> 2 weeks ago and made a selfupdate about 2 weeks ago. Update
> >>>>>> Frequency seems to be very high :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Oh. I'm sorry. I misread. You're not installing readline, you're
> >>>>> installing readline-5. readline was updated to 5.2.001 way back on
> >>>>> 2007-03-19, but readline-5 is still at 5.0.005.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Why are you installing readline-5 instead of readline? It looks
> >>>>> like
> >>>>> the only port that depends on readline-5 is ghc, and that only
> >>>>> on Mac
> >>>>> OS X 10.3.x. But you said you're running 10.4.10. Are you
> >>>>> trying to
> >>>>> install ghc?
> >>>>
> >>>> No i am trying to install subversion and readline is a dependency
> >>>> of it. I don't know if i need 5.2, the only thig i did is :
> >>>>
> >>>> sudo port install readline
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't really care which version of readline i get. But thats all
> >>>> automatic by MacPorts.
> >>>
> >>> Ah yes, subversion depends on apr-util, which depends on sqlite3,
> >>> which depends on readline. It does not depend on readline-5, and
> >>> readline-5 would not satisfy the readline dependency. So we're back
> >>> to my previous suggestions regarding potential changes to the
> >>> readline port you could try:
> >>>
> >>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-August/
> >>> 005009.html
> >>
> >> The Problem is, that this line :
> >>
> >>  delete ${destroot}${prefix}/share/info/dir
> >>
> >> is not in the portfile. there is a generall line inside, which
> >> goes over all
> >> /share/info/*.
> >>
> >> I tried to delete this line, but the same problem as before.
>
> Either you are looking at the wrong portfile, or your portfiles are
> months out of date. The relevant line has been that way since
> February 2007, as per this changeset:
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/22017
>
> This is the file we're talking about:
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports/
> devel/readline/Portfile?rev=26187
>
> It is located at the path devel/readline/Portfile within your ports
> tree.
>
> Line 41.
>
> What is the first line of your readline portfile -- what is the
> output of this command?
>
> port file readline | xargs head -n 1
>
> On my system, it is as follows:
>
> # $Id: Portfile 26187 2007-06-15 10:36:51Z ryandesign at macports.org $
>
> And this is what you should see, too, if your ports tree is up to date.
>
>
> > ok, i fixed the problem:
> >
> > i just created
> >
> > /opt/local/var/macports/build/
> > _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel
> > _readline/work/destroot/opt/local/share/info/dir
> >
> > this directory was missing
>
> It sounds like you worked around the problem, rather than fixing it.
> You may have succeeded in installing the port today, but if you ever
> need to reinstall it, I see no reason why the same problem would not
> occur again. It would be beneficial to discover why the problem
> occurred in the first place. Maybe a change needs to be made to the
> portfile. We won't know until someone who's experiencing the problem
> (you) tries out the changes suggested above to see if they help or not.
>
> Another possibility would be to explicitly write the code so that the
> file is only deleted if it exists, similar to this:
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/27782
>
>
>
>