Workaround gnutar for gdbm

[Alejandro Imass]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass at yabarana.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
>> Hi Alejandro,
>>

[...]

>> Please don't change stuff in /usr/bin - that's Apple-land. Furthermore, this symlink might later be picked up by MacPorts' configure script during its next selfupdate and then end up getting baked into your MacPorts release, effectively breaking it when you (or the next OS upgrade) ever remove it again. So,

Oops feeling really stupid by not RTFM! The very first paragraph
(https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MavericksProblems#UpdatingMacPortsBase)
:

<quote>
Versions of MacPorts built on 10.8 or lower will fail to install
packages on Mavericks because of a missing /usr/bin/gnutar. The
solution to that problem is to re-install MacPorts using the installer
for Mavericks. Do not create a symlink named /usr/bin/gnutar pointing
to a different version of tar or a version of gnutar you installed
using MacPorts or yourself.
</quote>

Thanks again!

Alejandro Imass