General question about MacPorts

[Wilden Mark]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Wilden Mark wrote:
>> A couple of days ago, I posted about the inability to build
>> mod_python. There appears to be a problem building apr-1.2.12, which
>> mod_python and others (like Subversion) depend on. A ticket was added
>> for this (#14470).
>
> Sorry, I didn't notice this ticket (as it wasn't assigned or CC'd to  
> me), and I'm the  maintainer of the apr port.

Ah, cool. How does a ticket get assigned? Was there something I could  
have done?

> It looks like your issue is a duplicate of #14203 (it's a conflict  
> with ossp-uuid) and you should be able to get things working by  
> temporarily deactivating ossp-uuid, rebuilding apr, and then  
> activating ossp-uuid after you get it installed. [There's more  
> detailed information in the ticket].

I had in fact installed postgresql83 by mistake, and that seems to  
relate. However, after uninstalling ossp-uuid and building apr, I  
received the error: misc/unix/rand.c:39:18: error: uuid.h: No such  
file or directory. The places on my system where that file exists are

/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/ 
Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/uuid/uuid.h
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/include/uuid/uuid.h
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/ 
Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/uuid/uuid.h
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/include/uuid/uuid.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/uuid/ 
uuid.h
/usr/include/uuid/uuid.h

and the output from sudo port install apr is

Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/ 
local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_devel_apr/work/apr-1.2.12" && make all "  
returned error 2
Command output: /bin/sh /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_devel_apr/work/apr-1.2.12/libtool --silent  
--mode=compile /usr/bin/gcc-4.0   -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DDARWIN - 
DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK -no-cpp-precomp  -I/opt/local/include - 
I./include -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_devel_apr/work/apr-1.2.12/include/arch/ 
unix -I./include/arch/unix -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_devel_apr/work/apr-1.2.12/include  -o misc/ 
unix/rand.lo -c misc/unix/rand.c && touch misc/unix/rand.lo
misc/unix/rand.c:39:18: error: uuid.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [misc/unix/rand.lo] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

>> 3) Is MacPorts really just a convenience, and not something that one
>> should depend on?
>
> That's something you have to determine for yourself. Macports is a  
> volunteer project. I'm sure if you wanted to pay someone to make  
> sure everything that's important to you kept working, you could ;-)

I don't think I -can- determine this for myself. I don't even know how  
I would do such a thing without much, much more experience with  
MacPorts. That's why I was asking the community at large.

>> Mr. Mod_Python (Graham Dumpleton) recommends not
>> using it, for example.
>
> That's interesting, and I would be curious as to why that would be  
> the case.

It's annoying, I agree.

Thanks very much for your comments, not only on how to solve my  
problem, but also on MacPorts in general!

///ark