Pyraf question

[David Nicholls]

Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2010-1-2 01:00 , Joshua Root wrote:
>> On 2010-1-2 00:24 , David Nicholls wrote:
>>> Some progress: the pre-install tests work, but I suspect the port
>>> install process is not going to let me configure:  The error message I
>>> get is:
>>> --------
>>>
>>> sudo port install
>>> --->  Computing dependencies for pyraf
>>> --->  Configuring pyraf
>>> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell
>>> command " cd
>>> "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_dcnicholls_python_pyraf/work/pyraf-1.8.1"
>>> && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local " returned error 127
>>> Command output: sh: ./configure: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>> -------
>>>
>>> The /opt/local/var/macports... directory does exist, so I presume the
>>> problem lies with the ./configure --prefix step
>>>
>>> Or maybe it's because I'm trying to turn a stand-alone install tar.gz
>>> file to work with Macports?
>> Well, is there a configure script or not?

As this is my first attempt at building a port, and I'm no heavy duty 
Unix person, there's lots of things I don't know that I don't know 
about.  One of which is configure scripts. More to learn :-)

> 
> Actually, given that this is a python module, you most likely want to
> use the appropriate PortGroup, which would set 'use_configure no' for you.

I'll try that.  First I need to read more about portgroups.

DN

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