Error after trying to upgrade installed

[robert delius royar]

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 (06:27 -0600 UTC) Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jan 19, 2009, at 07:37, robert delius royar wrote:
>
>> So much traffic on this thread, so much time spent answering questions. But 
>> I do not recall any of the answerers trying
>> port provides /opt/local/lib/libintl.dylib
>
> Sorry; I thought it was already understood that libintl is the 
> internationalization library and that it is provided by gettext.

My original post was strident; it should not have been.
[...]
> I agree it's a MacPorts base issue. A ticket has now also been filed for this 
> issue:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18149

Thanks

>> I have the last model of the G5 iMac running 10.5.6, and the 
>> portinstalltype is direct, and portarchivemode is no.  1.7 seems as though 
>> it has sections that are not sure what "direct" mode is by the way; some 
>> ports I have upgraded recently report "activating."  I have not used image 
>> mode on this machine at all.
>
> Direct mode is certainly less well tested than image mode. I've never used 
> it. Is there a particular reason why you are using it?

I began using Darwinports very soon after DP was created.  When Image 
mode was added, a few of us (perhaps under Panther but could have been 
Tiger) noticed significant (and documentable) slow downs on access to 
files in /opt/local/bin.  After a conversation on the old DP mailing 
list, we found that hard links were problematic for the OS (at least in 
that version) when they exceded some level.

I recall that an Apple employee stated that this was a known problem. 
After switching from my old G4 to this G5 and reinstalling MP, I kept 
the direct mode partly because it works just fine and I do not usually 
need to worry about which port is active.  I only have 518 ports 
installed on this computer.  On the earlier machine I had more of the 
X11 system in DP/MP.  But now that Apple has a real active developer 
working on porting X, all my X stuff (except gimp) is outside MP's 
system.

> There are ports that define post-activation phases. Perhaps those are getting 
> executed even in direct mode, and that is why you see MacPorts stating it is 
> activating a port, even though in direct mode there isn't an activation 
> phase...
>
> If you could say exactly what ports do this, we could investigate further.

I will make sure to do this the next time I see the problem.  I can 
usually work around it because of so many years using MP, so I just move 
forward.

-- 
Dr. Robert Delius Royar                   Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University                             Morehead, Kentucky