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[Anders F Björklund]

Max Asato wrote:

> Last but not least, is there any way to get MacPorts to install  
> packages
> from a port archive file that was built on another system?  I've  
> set the
> portarchivemode parameter in macports.conf on two intel Macs (both
> running 10.4.11), built a package on one and copied the archive over
> to /opt/local/var/macports/packages/darwin/i386/ on the other but
> MacPorts ignored the archive and attempted to fetch and build the
> package again on the other system.  It would be nice if we didn't have
> to subject every Scipy user to a bootstrap build of gcc.

That sounds correct...

If you run MacPorts in debugging mode (port -d), you should get
some output telling you what happened to the unarchive phase...
But when you enable portarchivemode=yes, it is supposed to try
"unarchive" (binary) before doing the "destroot" (source build)

--anders