error trying to install p5.12-locale-gettext

[Wes James]

Hi,

see my comment inline below....

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

> On Oct 4, 2012, at 12:18, Wes James wrote:
>
> <snip>


>
> That's not supported. The installer package is intended to be used for a
> root install only. It has never been tested the way you're using it so I
> don't know if there might be unforeseen consequences.
>
> The way to install MacPorts for a non-root user is to compile it from
> source and supply the --with-install-user and --with-install-group options
> to the configure script.
>
>
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/InstallingMacPorts#InstallMacPortsfromsourceasanunprivilegednon-rootuser
>
>
Thanks for this hint.  I was able to get wxwidgets (which p5.12-locale-gettext
is a part of and was trying to get installed to get finish the whole
wxwidgets install) installed on Lion.


>
> > port install p5.12-locale-gettext
>
> And this succeeds? The subject of this thread was "error trying to install
> p5.12-locale-gettext", so I take it this problem has now been resolved?
>
>

<snip>

Thanks,

wes
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