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

[Stuart Tannehill]

Ahh, OK, thanks.
I don't know what I installed that put in a bad copy of libreadline  
but I imagine others may have this same issue. Hopefully this solution  
will help them.

-Stuart

On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> 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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