MacPorts-1.6.0 Won't Build

Etherous etherous at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 14:25:19 PDT 2008


On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 01:34:27PM -0600, Etherous said:
>> Running MacBook: Intel Core Duo with Mac OS 10.5.4
>>
>> I already tried the DarwinPorts-1.6.0-10.5-Leopard.dmg version.  
>> The .pkg
>> SEEMED to run successfully, but whatever it did, it didn't install
>> DarwinPorts.
>
> Where did you find a DarwinPorts 1.6 DMG?  DarwinPorts ended prior  
> to 1.6 so
> all DMG's [1] should be called MacPorts-1.6.0*.

http://www.portcode.com/darwinports/DarwinPorts-1.5.0-10.4.dmg

>> So next, I tried to manually build the MacPorts-1.6.0.tar.gz
>> version. However, during ./configure, the following was displayed
>> immediately before terminating:
>>
>> configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime
>> checking for Apple Foundation library... no
>> configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your
>> environment, preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
>> configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation
>>
>
> Make sure you have Xcode installed, as this is probably failing to  
> find all
> the necessary bits for compilation (the runtime stuff is obviously  
> installed
> for basic OS functionality but I don't believe headers are by  
> default).
> You'll need Xcode anyway to build ports once MacPorts is successfully
> installed.
>
> Bryan

Xcode is definitely setup, and I'm sure development libs / includes  
are as well.

> [1] - <http://www.macports.org/install.php>
>
>
>> I know for a fact the Apple Foundation library exists (obviously)  
>> and, to
>> no avail, tried setting the following two environment variables:
>> APPLE_FOUNDATION_LIBS="-framework Foundation"
>> APPLE_FOUNDATION_CFLAGS="-framework Foundation"
>>
>> I could use some help at this point. Googling found absolutely  
>> nothing I
>> could use. If someone could either help me to fix the ./configure or
>> figure out where the package from the DMG installed to, I would  
>> greatly
>> appreciate it.
>
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