MacPorts 1.8.1 has been released

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Tue Sep 29 12:35:42 PDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:21:00PM -0700, Savory Michael said:
> You are of corse perfectly correct, I withdraw my concern
> 
> On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> >>$ uname -a
> >>Darwin arda.local 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31
> >The numbers given by uname is the kernel version, NOT the OS version.
> 
> However I am still left unable to install 1.8.1 with the following
> error message...
> 
> DEBUG: Rebuilding and reinstalling MacPorts if needed
> MacPorts base version 1.8.1 downloaded.
> --->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 1.8.1
> DEBUG: can't read "tcl_platform(user)": no such variable
>     while executing
> "string equal $tcl_platform(user) $owner"
>     (procedure "macports::selfupdate" line 63)
>     invoked from within
> "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options]"
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: can't read
> "tcl_platform(user)": no such variable

That's really odd, tcl_platform is a standard Tcl variable, so unless
something is really wrong with your Tcl install, that shouldn't happen.

What is the result of

$ ls -l /usr/bin/tclsh*

Bryan


> 
> This is on a normal (non user privs) clean install when Snow Leopard
> was released.
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mike


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