What is MacPort 1.5 trying to pipe the gzip output to?

[Ryan Schmidt]

Don't forget to Reply To All so that your reply goes to the list too.

On Nov 25, 2007, at 14:09, Jesse Ohlsson wrote:

> 	I am running MacPorts 1.520 on a PowerPC G5 under Mac OS X 10.5.1.
>
> 	It appears that whatever script is extracting the expat package  
> (whatever that is!), or the fping package for that matter, is  
> missing the "tar" command, but has the switches intended to follow it.
>
> 	Thanks for the quick response, I hope this is something we can  
> find the solution for...

Did you build MacPorts from source or install it from a disk image?  
(Which disk image?)

Do you have anything installed in /usr/local? Do you have Fink  
installed in /sw? Both of those could conflict with MacPorts in weird  
and exciting ways.

The expat port doesn't say anything about the tar command. That's a  
global MacPorts extraction mechanism, so I would expect all ports to  
be equally broken for you at this point. The relevant code, I think,  
from portextract.tcl:

default extract.post_args {"| ${portutil::autoconf::tar_command} -xf -"}

So ${portutil::autoconf::tar_command} is empty for you. I don't know  
why yet.


> On Nov 25, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Nov 25, 2007, at 12:12, Jesse Ohlsson wrote:
>>
>>> 	I installed the Xcode and X11, then the latest MacPorts and  
>>> successfully updated it as well.  I am ultimately trying to get  
>>> wireshark running.  This is the failure message I get:
>>>
>>>
>>> [g5:~] jess% sudo port install wireshark
>>> --->  Extracting expat
>>> Error: Target org.macports.extract returned: shell command " cd "/ 
>>> opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_tex 
>>> tproc_expat/work" && gzip -dc /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ 
>>> expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz | -xf - " returned error 127
>>> Command output: sh: -xf: command not found
>>>
>>> gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
>>>
>>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: glib2 gettext  
>>> expat libiconv pkgconfig gtk2 atk cairo fontconfig freetype zlib  
>>> libpng render xrender jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util- 
>>> macros tiff libpcap openssl
>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried installing port fping and got the same error.
>>>
>>> Is this a simple fix?  Has anyone else seen this?  I'd sure  
>>> appreciate any help.
>>
>> Haven't seen this problem before. That's supposed to be a tar  
>> command the output of gzip is being piped to.
>>
>> Exactly what version of MacPorts do you have? What version of  
>> Xcode? What version of Mac OS X? What kind of Mac (Intel or PowerPC)?