MacPorts activation relating to bsdtar

[Steven Esser]

Alright I will try to figure this out over the weekend

> On Oct 11, 2019, at 22:42, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 11, 2019, at 21:39, Steven Esser wrote:
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>> The bsdtar command seems to work fine outside of the scripts. This is a fresh installation of Catalina and MacPorts, so there are extraneous installs of bsdtar or libarchive etc
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> I assume you are the only person experiencing this problem, since nobody else has reported it, so something must be different about your computer. I don't know what that is though.
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>> The custom prefix is just personal preference; The Catalina binaries aren’t being built yet so I am in the same situation in any case.
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> You prefer to compile everything yourself?
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> Once we start building binaries, you would automatically benefit from them if you had installed in /opt/local with standard settings. But as it is, you will continue to have to compile everything yourself even after we make binaries available.
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