Trying to install ld64 port from source, but binaries installed instead?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed May 9 18:06:50 PDT 2012


On May 9, 2012, at 19:52, Sean Farley wrote:

>> I just tried to "port install ld64", and instead of compiling from source,
>> it downloads a .tbz2 package from packages.macports.org which contains the
>> binaries. I guess I thought macports always built from source unless you
>> added "pkg" to the port command? Thanks for any help.
> 
> This is a newer change; you'll need to add the '-s' option to signify
> that you want to build from source.

Right. We never really announced the availability of binaries, but they've been available for Snow Leopard since last year and Lion since this year.

Is there a reason why you want to build ld64 from source -- is there something wrong with the binary on our server? If so, we need to know so we can fix it.





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