fetching distfiles for p5.30-libapreq2 hanging or crashing macOS Big Sur

[Murray Eisenberg]

OK…I’ve seemingly overcome the Big Sur 11.1 crashes with p5.30-libapreq2 installation by installing MacPorts.

Unfortunately, to install  p5.30-libapreq2 requires installing mod_perl2 variant +perl5_30. But building the latter fails! See: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62169 <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62169>

(That sinking feeling from getting deeper and deeper toward an abyss!)

> On 27 Jan2021, at 5:05 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jan 27, 2021, at 15:55, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>> 
>> Ahh…that helps greatly, thank you!
>> 
>> I notice that most, or even all, of the commands given it the “2.2.3 Git install” directions at https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.git require that I use “sudo”, even though I’m on an admin account. For example, I had to do:
>> 
>> 	sudo mkdir -p /iopt/mports
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> 	sudo ./configure —enable-readline
>> 	sudo make
>> 
>> whereas the only commands listed in those directions indicate the need for sudo only in “sudo make install”.
>> 
>> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> On my system, /opt is a directory owned by root. Perhaps it is the same on your system. As such, yes, you need sudo to be able to create a file or directory inside it.
> 
> You could set the ownership of the directory that you create to yourself so that you can then perform further operations inside that directory as your user without sudo.
> 
> sudo mkdir /opt/mports
> sudo chown yourusername /opt/mports
> cd /opt/mports
> ...
> 
> You should not configure and make any software as root or with sudo. Use your own user account. Only use sudo to make install.
> 
> As the guide says, "For this example, /opt/mports will be used, but you can put the source anywhere." For example, you could create a directory inside your home directory, which would already be owned by you.

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