Problems installing pkgconfig?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 13, 2007, at 06:17, Wouter Eerdekens wrote:

> 2007/5/13, Mike Jones:
>
>> I've just downloaded and installed darwinports(macports) and am  
>> having
>> problems with pkgconfig - which is a dependency of a number of  
>> files. The
>> command I'm running is:
>>
>> sudo port install -d pkgconfig
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for pkgconfig
>> Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
>> Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
>> Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
>> Error: Target com.apple.checksum returned: Unable to verify file  
>> checksums
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>
>> Is there a problem with the package, or am I doing something  
>> wrong? I'm
>> running MacOSX 10.4.9
>
> It appears the freedesktop.org servers are down for maintenance. The
> pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz file you downloaded is actually a HTML file
> with a downtime notice...
>
> I downloaded the package from a mirror:
>
> http://mirror.opensysadmin.com/pkg-config/pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
>
> and put the file in /opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/pkgconfig

There have been several previous messages on this mailing list on  
this topic. I updated the port yesterday to include my web site as a  
backup. I'll add the above web site to the port now. If you sync your  
ports you should be able to install pkg-config now.