system hosed?

[David Corking]

On 2009-9-9 20:41, Wolf Drechsel wrote:
>>>> with installing cairomm ( http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21230 )
>>>>
>>>> As adviced I reinstalled macports from scratch - but this seems not to
>>>> resolve the issue - I get the same result as before:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> dsl01:~ bub$ lipo -info /usr/bin/tee
>>>> lipo: can't figure out the architecture type of: /usr/bin/tee
>>>>
>>>> dsl01:~ bub$ tee -xyz
>>>> -bash: /usr/bin/tee: cannot execute binary file
>>>>

Just for comparison, this is the output I get on a (mostly working)
Intel Tiger 10.4.11

inner-farne:~ dcorking$ lipo -info /usr/bin/tee
Architectures in the fat file: /usr/bin/tee are: i386 ppc

inner-farne:~ dcorking$ file /usr/bin/tee
/usr/bin/tee: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/tee (for architecture i386):   Mach-O executable i386
/usr/bin/tee (for architecture ppc):    Mach-O executable ppc

inner-farne:~ dcorking$ ls -l /usr/bin/tee
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  29968 Dec  7  2006 /usr/bin/tee

inner-farne:~ dcorking$ tee -xyz
tee: illegal option -- x
usage: tee [-ai] [file ...]

I really can't speculate why you should have a Linux Intel binary
where there should be an OS X universal binary.   Did a reinstall of
OS X work for you?  Is tee behaving for you now?

As for big cats, Apple hasn't used 'Beast of Bodmin' yet.*

Best, David

* A quick browse of Wikipedia suggests that there are a dozen or more
cat species still available for codenames, though as Michael said,
most, apart from Lion, are quite small.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae#Classification
I haven't kept track of the codenames used for iPhone OS