su problem after bad meld install

[Jenn Mixxmann]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Schmidt" <ryandesign at macports.org>
> To: "Jenn Mixxmann" <juicimixx at doramail.com>
> Subject: Re: su problem after bad meld install
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:34:06 -0500
> 
> 
> On Aug 17, 2007, at 06:07, Jenn Mixxmann wrote:
> 
> >    I tried using macports to install meld (a visual diff tool).   
> >  The install failed due to some dependency.
> 
> Not entirely surprising... when all is said and done, meld has well 
>   over a hundred dependencies. [1]
> 
> > This turned out to be okay since I ended up using a different 
> > tool  than meld.   However it left my root account in a bit of a  
> > quandry.   I ran
> > port install meld
> > directly from the root account since I was taking care of some  
> > other tasks also.   After the install failed, I exited from the  
> > account back to a normal account and did some other work.    When 
> > I  needed to su back, I noted:
> > 1) the default shell for root had changed from bash to sh
> 
> I'm not aware of any part of MacPorts that should be doing that. 
> Can  anyone else think of why that would have happened?
> 
> For the record, on Mac OS X, sh is bash so this should not have  
> caused you any difficulty at all.
> 
> > 2) every time I ran 'su', Little Snitch would pop up saying that 
> > su  was trying to contact my DNS server on port 53.   (I can 
> > allow or  deny the request; it doesn't matter since su will still 
> > work  correctly.)
> >
> >    I changed the default shell back to bash, however I'm not sure 
> >  of what to do to fix the second problem or why su needs to 
> > contact  the DNS server.   Is there a quick fix for this?
> 
> Also not sure what's going on there. I know that the heimdal port,  
> for example, will install its own su, which may behave differently  
> from the system's su. But heimdal is not a dependency of meld.
> 
> 
> 
> [1] It's a pretty impressive dependency graph, really:
> 
> http://www.ryandesign.com/tmp/meld.png

>


Wow, I was actually pretty surprised by all the dependencies for meld.   Had I checked on this ahead of time, I probably wouldn't have tried to install it.   For what it's worth, the version of su in /opt/local/bin is definately the culprit.   I renamed it and went back to using su in /usr/bin and all seems well.   I tried to install meld once more, but it seems to fail around libxslt, saing that libxml2 isn't right (needs at least 2.6.27, and I have 2.6.23).

Thanks.

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