Spim Install Failure

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 1, 2009, at 17:37, Scott Haneda wrote:

> On Mar 1, 2009, at 9:55 AM, David P. Henderson wrote:
>
>> I am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction to  
>> get the spim port installing. It is currently marked as  
>> nomaintainer and appears to fail during the install into DESTROOT.  
>> Using the latest version of macports (ran selfupdate before  
>> attempting to install spim) and the spim version is 7.4.  
>> Specifically it looks as if the install is failing while trying to  
>> install documentation.
>
> I could be way wrong on this one, but this seems to  be an issue  
> that is being discussed in a few others threads.

I haven't seen any similar errors reported in other threads.


> If you look at the error, it is not finding a html doc page, and  
> failing on installing that, thereby failing the activation.

It's failing during destroot, so it hasn't even gotten to the  
activation phase.


> I believe, you could use the -f flag to force it on install, `port - 
> df install spim`, or, since you already have it close to installed,  
> you can try `port -df activate spim` though you will still be  
> missing that one doc page.

Forcing can't help. It can't find the file it's trying to install. No  
amount of coercion will allow MacPorts to install a file it can't find.



David, I was able to reproduce the issue if I do not have the imake  
port installed (that is, if I'm using imake provided by Apple in /usr/ 
X11R6). The problem goes away if I use imake provided by MacPorts. In  
r47624 I switched the port's dependencies so that the MacPorts imake  
port will always be used. Please wait an hour, then "sudo port sync"  
and try installing again.