problem with PGP build

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 12, 2007, at 02:01, Nodje wrote:

> Randall Wood wrote:
>
>> On 11 Oct 2007, at 04:46, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 11, 2007, at 02:33, nodje wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to compile pgp and get the following error:
>>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Disturbingly, this port is for a version of pgp from 1998. Surely
>>> such old software isn't so useful anymore?
>>
>> You probably actually want the gnupg software instead.
>
> thanks for the tip guys.
> I just needed some pgp software, tried my luck with 'sudo port install
> pgp'. I thought I'd be the latest version.
> I'm unfortunately unable, yet, to understand the cause of the error by
> reading stacktrace.
> I ended up downloading gnupg binaries for 1.4.7.
> I'd be happy to get the 2.0 from Macports.
> What would be a good way to check version availability in port?

"port search gnupg" shows that gnupg 2.0.4 is available as the gnupg2  
port.

> More generally, when some fix have been commited to SVN, like the one
> for compiling firefox-x11, what is the best way to get the latest  
> update?
> 'port selfupdate' doesn't get you the latest version of the trunk  
> isn't it?

selfupdate gets you the latest released version of MacPorts (curently  
1.5.2), and also does a sync. sync gets you the latest ports tree  
from SVN. (Well, actually, from rsync, by default, but the rsync  
server syncs with the svn server every half hour.)