Unable to configure any packages when MacPort is active

[Rodolfo Aramayo]

Thanks Brandon

That seems to help

I re-installed coreutils, just in case

Thanks

--R

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 16:52, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 17:43, Rodolfo Aramayo <raramayo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> People,
>>
>> So I found the culprit and it is:
>>
>> coreutils @8.14 (sysutils)
>>     GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities
>>
>
> Remove /opt/local/libexec/gnubin from your $PATH; that's where coreutils
> is overriding all the system utilities, usually to the great confusion of
> configure (which is generally smart enough to look for g<foo> if the system
> <foo> isn't good enough).
>
> The whole reason non-prefixed stuff got moved to /opt/local/libexec/gnubin
> is that it's a *lovely* way to confuse the heck out of programs.
>
> --
> brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
> wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
>
>
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