guntar missing on Mac OS X Maverics

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 23, 2013, at 08:48, Xin Xu <railwaycat at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Oct 23, 2013, at 8:48, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 07:27, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>> On 2013-10-23 12:49, Toshiyuki Kamada wrote:
>>>> I managed to symlink /usr/bin/tar to /usr/bin/gnutar as a quick avoiding glitch.
>>> 
>>> If you install from source–which is the recommended way at the moment
>>> until a disk image is available–you avoid this problem.
>> 
>> It is not only the recommended way, it is the only way: the binary installers are for specific OS X versions, and will prevent installation on the wrong OS X version.
>> 
>> So I still don’t know how users are managing to get into this situation, unless it’s by upgrading to Mavericks and forgetting to recompile MacPorts afterward like the Migration page says to do.
>> 
> 
> Will make&make install 2.2.0 from source also have this issue?

./configure && make && make install should work fine.

> Which is the only way I think to install 2.2.0 on Mavericks. 

Building from source is the only way to install any version of MacPorts on Mavericks because we have not yet provided any binaries because Mavericks was only just released.