Comments on: os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and macports

By: Jeff Tan

Jeff Tan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:18:37 +0000

Spoke too soon. Also had to uninstall, clean and reinstall neon and xslt. I had an older installation of mac ports on Leopard, and I upgraded to Snow Leopard rather than doing a clean install. So I therefore started with outdated macports libraries. I think I just stumble on them when I luck into them and muck around uninstalling, cleaning and reinstalling.

By: Jeff Tan

Jeff Tan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:53:41 +0000

Thanks for the tips. For the life of me, I can’t exactly remember what sequence of uninstall and cleans I had to do. I had to throw in a reinstall of macports as well. But in the end it worked. For some strange reason, one of the source header files for ncurses (ncurses_def.h, I think) was missing a terminating #endif. In the end, I think I had to (1) force uninstall all versions of ncurses and gawk that I had, (2) that wrecked macports itself so I couldn’t run the port command so I reinstalled macports from the .dmg file, (3) I installed ncurses and gawk, (4) I was trying to install subversion and I think that worked (5) but the svn command wouldn’t work because neon was broken so (5) I upgraded neon. I think *then* subversion finally worked.

But don’t ask about postgresql. Still wrestling with xslt problems..

By: Palephate

Palephate — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:14:05 +0000

Merci, la réinstallation a suffit pour résoudre le problème et pouvoir installer la 1.9

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:53:51 +0000

Thanks for the article. VERY helpful!

By: carlo

carlo — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:59:22 +0000

Pete, you may also try to reinstall MacPorts from scratch.

http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/2373

Pre-compiled binaries that get installed in /usr/local can be found here:

http://rudix.org

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:46:35 +0000

Thanks for the info. MacPorts is a tedious bloody thing, and after looking at all the fixes and packages that are required, I realised why I got rid of it in the first place off my machine: buggy, tired old versions of software, and over the top dependency/version checking. I’m back to DIY compilation in /usr/local with the original software source (which usually includes Mac-ready compile options)!
Too any newbs out there: be prepared for a lot of frustration with MacPorts – it just doesn’t work very well.

By: andualem

andualem — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:56:13 +0000

thank you very much for ur professional help…

By: Matt Roberts

Matt Roberts — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:03:41 +0000

Cheers dude, you saved me from a frustrated hour with this info

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:54:51 +0000

Wow! Great help. I love Snow Leopard, but sometimes it’s a little bewildering. Vielen Dank!

By: Arnaud

Arnaud — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:41:51 +0000

Thanks for this great article, Very helpful too;-)