General question about MacPorts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 13:11, Wilden Mark wrote:

> 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?

Regular users cannot assign tickets. I don't know why we don't allow  
this.

Regular users can set the Cc field when tickets are created, but not  
after. I don't know why we restrict this either.

>> 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.

Did you clean first?

sudo port clean --work apr
sudo port install apr