Failure to port Octave

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:38:45PM -0500, Robert Fong-tom said:
> Hi,
> I tried to port Octave using MacPorts the port failed because of the  
> following error.
>
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /Library/ 
> Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework/AquaTerm already exists and does not belong 
> to a registered port.  Unable to activate port aquaterm.
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnuplot aquaterm gd2 
> autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5.8 m4 automake jpeg libtool 
> pdflib gsed hdf5 pcre qhull texinfo lzmautils texlive texlive_base 
> texi2html texlive_texmf-full texlive_texmf-minimal
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> Does anyone know what this means?

It's telling you that something/someone installed the AquaTerm framework
into /Library/Frameworks (not MacPorts, yet), and the aquaterm port wants to
do the same.  For safety reasons, MacPorts stopped at that point instead of
overwriting.

Basically you need to figure out what it was that initially installed the
AquaTerm framework, and act accordingly.

Note that the next MacPorts release will start installing frameworks in
${prefix}/Library/Frameworks instead of /Library/Frameworks.

Bryan


>
> Bob