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

[Ryan Schmidt]

Try moving /usr/local aside (renaming it) to see if that helps.

sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local-off

If it does, then something in /usr/local is conflicting, and again, I  
recommend not having anything in /usr/local (though /usr/local/ 
anything is fine, so /usr/local/mysql and /usr/local/php5 are not a  
problem, but the lib, bin, libexec, sbin and share directories could  
be).

On Nov 27, 2007, at 00:57, Jesse Ohlsson wrote:

> Ryan,  I installed it from the dmg file from macports.org here:   
> MacPorts-1.5.0-10.5.dmg.
>
> Here is my /usr/local:
>
> [g5:/usr/local] jess% ls -la
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root  admin  408 Nov 12 13:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x@ 15 root  wheel  510 Nov 25 12:51 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Oct 17 20:05 OpenSourceLicenses
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Oct 17 20:05 OpenSourceVersions
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root  admin  238 Apr 28  2005 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  admin   68 Feb 17  2007 lib
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  admin  136 May  5  2005 libexec
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin   47 Aug 11  2005 mysql -> mysql- 
> standard-4.0.24-apple-darwin7.7.0-powerpc
> drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  646 Mar  5  2005 mysql-standard-4.0.24- 
> apple-darwin7.7.0-powerpc
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root  staff  374 Apr  4  2005 php5
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  staff   68 Oct  9  2005 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  admin  136 Feb 17  2007 share
>
> I don't have a /sw directory in the root, and I have never  
> installed Fink.  A find / -name /sw found nothing, either.
>
> I hope there is some interesting or useful information here..
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jess
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> 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_t 
>>>>> extproc_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)?
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