Macports stopped working after xcode 4.6 upgrade

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Feb 22 16:49:34 PST 2013


On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:37, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2013-02-21 09:42, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>> [Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> (2013-02-21 06:31:44 UTC)]
>> 
>>> Very annoying. I've actually filed a Radar about this.
>>> 
>>> http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=2620402
>> 
>> Good.
>> 
>>>> (Should this be in the FAQ?)
>>> 
>>> Considering that we don't recommend using /etc/paths or /etc/paths.d anywhere, I'm not sure it needs to be.
>> 
>> The reason would be to inform people who know about these, or discover them, may want to use them in the way I suggested. But if it doesn't satisfy the F in FAQ, then perhaps it should not be included. Tha balancing act between supplying too little information and too much is always tricky.
> 
> Besides the FAQ [1], we also have the ProblemHotlist [2]. It's not
> frequently asked and also not a hot problem, so maybe we should have
> another list of common problems?

We already have far too many lists of problems; we should be working on consolidating them, not making new ones.


> Or maybe just decide for one of the
> existing wiki pages and add it there...

I'd be in favor of that. The more-frequently-asked questions would go at nearer to the top of the page.


> I would appreciate to have a place in the wiki to point to for topics
> like this ("Why isn't MacPorts doing/using XYZ?").

We can also just create individual pages in the wiki to point people to.



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