fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 6, 2007, at 18:00, Fernando Selman wrote:

> When trying to install py-gnuplot in a Mac, darwinports attempt
> to install fontconfog-2.4.2. When fetching the file the system fails
> as the file appears to be absent in all servers:
>
> --->  Fetching fontconfig
> --->  Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz from http:// 
> fontconfig.org/release/
> --->  Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz from http:// 
> distfiles-od.opendarwin.org/fontconfig
> --->  Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz from http:// 
> distfiles-msn.opendarwin.org/fontconfig
> --->  Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz from http:// 
> distfiles-od.opendarwin.org/
> --->  Attempting to fetch fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz from http:// 
> distfiles-msn.opendarwin.org/
> Error: Target com.apple.fetch returned: fetch failed
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnuplot  
> fontconfig gd2 jpeg libpng ncurses ncursesw pdflib readline teTeX  
> gawk gettext ghostscript gsed texi2html texinfo py-numeric
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Fernando. Thanks for reporting this problem to me. fontconfig  
archives are only hosted on fontconfig.org, and their web site  
appears to be down at this time. As a temporary measure, I'm putting  
the archive on my web site, from which you can manually download it  
and put it in the right place for MacPorts to find it. To do so, copy  
the following 4 commands into the Terminal:

cd /opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles
sudo mkdir -p fontconfig
cd fontconfig
sudo curl -O http://www.ryandesign.com/tmp/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz

MacPorts should now be able to find it and continue with the install.

I'm Cc'ing the MacPorts Users mailing list in case anyone else has  
this problem and needs an immediate solution. I will remove the  
archive from my server once I'm sure fontconfig.org is up and running  
again.