has port install syntax recently changed?

Lucas Vickers lucasvickers at gmail.com
Thu Jun 3 09:21:52 PDT 2010


removed, and reinstalled.

working now, thanks!

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> On 2010-6-4 01:38 , Lucas Vickers wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have used macports on this machine to install boost, and I am not
>> attempting to install mysqlxx.
>> I appear to be forced to use variants, and am having some trouble with
>> the syntax.  I have looked online and I am still confused.
>> ----------------------
>> Some examples:
>>
>> $ sudo port install boost
>> Error: Unable to execute port: wrong # args: should be "check_variants
>> variations target"
>
> Your base install is broken; looks like port(1) is from a different
> version than the macports1.0 package.
>
> - Josh
>


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