Some glitches while porting Ola (openlighting.org) - autoreconf not found

[Christoph Kukulies]

Thanks, Mojca

actually I just want to install the ola port.

Unfortunately I used brew and port install intermixed which is probably not a good idea.

Can I get rid of all (undo) I did with brew (homebrew) and repeat that using macports?

That would require to obtain a list of what I did using homebrew and redo that using macports :-(

—
Christoph


> Am 12.01.2019 um 17:44 schrieb Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org>:
> 
> Dear Christoph
> 
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 17:12, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>> 
>> Following the steps in
>> 
>> https://www.openlighting.org/ola/mac-install/
> 
> Do you just want to use the port or did you want to help with the
> development of that port?
> 
> It seems that we have the latest version of the software already
> packaged in MacPorts, so unless that's broken (you should let us know
> if it is), by far the easiest way to install it would be via
> 
>    sudo port install ola
> 
> and this is probably also what the official documentation should
> suggest trying first.
> 
> 
> I'll try to answer some of the other questions nonetheless:
> 
>> I’m stumbling across some hurdles:
>> 
>> first off: they ask me to install py27-protobuf
>> 
>> and in the next step I should do a python —version and should install the pyXX-protobuf fitting my python version.
> 
> That's probably a slightly unfortunate wording. What I suspect the
> author meant was that if you happened to have python2.6 installed by
> default (instructions might be of an older date), you would install
> py26-protobuf INSTEAD OF py27-protobuf. Note that python2.6 should no
> longer be used anyway.
> 
> In your case you probably did
>    sudo port select python python36
> which gives the python version that's likely too new for ola (I didn't
> check if it supports python 3; the version in MacPorts uses python 2.7
> in any case).
> 
> (Or, reading further from your latest reply, it's more likely that you
> installed python3 via Homebrew? What does "which python" return? If
> you are mixing HomeBrew and MacPorts, you should at least try to
> remove one from the path to make sure that you don't end up with half
> of the binaries from one manager and the other half from another.)
> 
> You could set the environment to use python 2.7 by default (and then
> switch back) with
>    sudo port select python python27
> or you can use
>    /opt/local/bin/python2.7
> direction when needed.
> 
>> But python —version gives 3.6.7 with me here. I don’t want tp spoil my python environment, so I did nothing about it.
>> 
>> Then comes the actual reason of my question:
>> 
>> I did a git clone of the project and then I’m instructed to do a
>> 
>> autoreconf -i
>> 
>> but there is no autoreconf.
> 
> It comes with
>    sudo port install autoconf
> 
> Mojca