where does macports installs programs?

Christopher Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Thu Jul 10 06:39:55 PDT 2014


Please post the MacPorts build log for ROOT5, from a clean rebuild of the root5 port.

Chris

On 10 Jul 2014, at 2:26pm, Fabrizio Salvatore <p.fabrizio.salvatore at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I am really unclear what is happening. Both root5 and python27 are exactly identical on the two Macs (I attach the full installation list to this email), but only for one of the two laptops pyROOT works, 
> 
>  python 
> Python 2.7.8 (default, Jul  3 2014, 06:00:18) 
> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import ROOT
> >>> 
> 
> while for the other I see:
> 
> Python 2.7.8 (default, Jul 2 2014, 10:14:58) 
>  [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)] on darwin 
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. 
> >>> import ROOT 
> Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named ROOT 
> >>>
> 
> If anyone spots some strange feature in the attached list of installed software... :-(
> 
> The only thing I can think about is that for the first laptop, before realising the I could find root in MacPorts, I was following the instructions at  https://alexpearce.me/2012/08/installing-root-on-mountain-lion/ to install root from the source (which where anyway unsuccessful ...).
> 
> Thanks a lot for all the help!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fab
> 
> <root5FS.txt>
>  
> <python27FS.txt>
> 
> On 10 Jul 2014, at 11:17, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 10, 2014, at 5:13 AM, Fabrizio Salvatore wrote:
>> 
>>> I have wiped the root5 installation and re-installed and for what I can see the two have the exact same root5 installed.... I was going to re-install python27 too, but there are a lot of dependencies so it might be a pretty complicated business... is there a way to do the uninstall without breaking these dependencies? I am going to check if there is any difference in the python27 installation first....
>>> 
>> 
>> I doubt you need to reinstall python27. In general, if a port installed, it installed successfully. Builds are supposed to be repeatable and not vary based on circumstances.
>> 
>> If you do wish to reinstall python27 (or another port) you can do it with:
>> 
>> sudo port -n upgrade --force python27
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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