selfupdate failing under Leopard (yes I read the other posts about this)

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Stuart Tannehill wrote:
> OK, MacPorts is working fine. I can add ports, upgrade them, etc. I  
> cannot,
> however, run selfupdate. The latest Xcode is installed, X11 is as  
> well. No
> ports are being blocked.
>
> I ran the install commands manually. Configure completes  
> successfully but
> Make fails with the following error: "ld: warning in
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.dylib, file is not of required  
> architecture"
>
> So I used MacPorts to update the copy of libreadline.dylib in /opt  
> to the
> latest version, copied it over to /usr/local/lib and then ran  
> selfupdate
> again. It worked properly. I did switch back to the original version  
> of
> libreadline.dylib because I don't want to screw up anything Apple  
> has going
> on with it. Ya never know.

Apple doesn't install things into /usr/local, you do. You had a bad  
copy of libreadline installed and it was causing problems.

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