This answer convincingly argues that there is no way to determine the storage needed to install a MacPorts package.
Also, as is clear from this Q & A it's a bad idea to install TeXlive using MacPorts since it becomes difficult to maintain it. It's much better to install an external TeXlive.
MacPorts has a recipe for installing Bugzilla, but during a dryrun (-y) I see texlive-bin in the list of packages Bugzilla depends on, which means that it will be duplicated.
Is there a way to install Bugzilla on a Mac (with or without MacPorts) without duplicating TeXlive?
Interesting. port rdeps --no-build bugzilla[1] shows no texlive-bin or any other tex-related ports that I'm aware of. I don't know that much about bugzilla but I can't imagine why it needs tex.
However, we have no maintainer for the bugzilla port. MacPorts is at version 4.4.5 whereas the current release is 5.0.3. It is also using MySQL version 5.1 which is getting pretty old. I wouldn't mind helping but it will be at least a few days before I could take a look at this. You might file a ticket with MacPorts requesting the update.
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Tickets
There is already a ticket regarding the database issue:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43431
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I have gcc 6.3.0 and to run tensorflow 2.11.0 along with cuda 11.2, I require gcc version 9.3.1, but I just cannot find a simple and straightforward way to do that. Some people say install mysys, other sites point to sourceforge download link, while download links on mingw site point to github repos, I just don't understand how to upgrade this thing. It would be really helpful if someone could explain it like you are explaining it to complete newbie, step by step.
Last time, I downloaded mysys2 because someone told that it will automatically upgrade gcc to latest version, mysys2 came with a python 3.10, and I was working with python 3.9, and it created a lot of issues, later I had to reset my pc. That's way I just want to know the direct way to upgrade this thing instead of upgrading other software. I also tried by downloading mingw, but the installer available on sourceforge gives gcc 6.3.0 and not the latest gcc. And what is this cygwin which gives unix like environment, why do i require unix like environment. Even if cygwin can do it easily, I am hesitant to download cygwin, cause i don't want another repeat of tragedy that happened due to mysys2, afterall, installing a complete set of programs that i don't know anything about and will probably never use will only create additional errors.
I am in the process of installing SDL 2 on Mac OSX 10.9 via macports, and for reference I have been following the official documentation as well as any sdl-specific information I can find.
https://guide.macports.org/ is straight-forward, as is:
https://guide.macports.org/#using.variants.invoking
I see that sdl2lib is available...
libsdl2 has the variants:
universal: Build for multiple architectures
x11: Enable X11 support
but despite having looked through pages at the above links and having searched for documentation for "SDL with X11", I can't seem to find information about whether I need X11 (and/or universal AKA powerpc) support. I wouldn't want to install SDL only to find that something is broken or missing.
Then again, there were some issues with X11 being enabled by default back when Mac OSX 10.1 was new:
https://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?t=2871&sid=52ca72a72c285196dd25fd8619715ae9
(That is another problem: much of the information I discover applies to outdated operating systems.)
Apparently SDL wasn't thread-safe at one point unless you used X11, but this was mentioned when SDL verson 1 was the main version:
http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1078
How am I meant to proceed (Which flags, if any, are usually chosen?)
port install libsdl2 <???>
I would appreciate any help and follow-up warnings for the next stepsinstallation steps.
Thank you in advance.
Most people have moved to Homebrew as their package system, but Macports should work just fine.
Universal does not mean PowerPC necessarily. In fact almost no one needs it anymore. Universal means a fat binary, which architectures this defines is set in your Macports configuration.
SDL2 should work just fine under Quartz, no need to have X11 - as also makes deployment annoying and difficult as you need to have XQuartz installed.
Also don't be afraid to reinstall SDL2 with other options if you miss something, it shouldn't take to long.
TL;DR Just install it without any additional flags unless you discover you need something special.
I have a bit of a problem. I need to use the strace utility to figure out why a command is crashing on an older Linux system. Unfortunately, I don't have strace nor do I have gcc/binutils on that system.
I tried building the app statically on a current Debian system, but calls to getpwnam require a dynamic load of the version of libc that was used at compile time. That would be fine, but being that the utilities on the older system were all built using an ancient version of libc, putting a newer libc on that system breaks everything else.
Short of downloading and installing an old distribution of Linux and then doing the build, is there an easier way around this problem? The original distribution on this system is currently unknown and the more I research it, it's getting to seem like a huge chicken vs egg problem. Any tips would be much appreciated.
Using an outdated Linux system is never wise... can it be upgraded? If not, why not? What is failing, and how? Any chance of updating that?
There should be a file named /etc/release or similar, that should give you an idea of the distribution and version. Or uname -a might give a clue on the distribution. If it doesn't work, try to see if commands like rpm, apt-get, or one of the other package management commands are available, that will narrow down the distribution. A Google search for some of the installed packages with versions might help narrow down the version of the distribution.
Knowing distribution and version you may be able to get strace (and perhaps other needed packages). Many distributions keep archival versions (at least of the original installation media for old versions) around.
I installed ruby 1.9.1 from source on cygwin about 9 months ago. I did a default install i.e make, make test, make install which installed it in /usr/local. I am now trying to install 1.92. After building and installing it using the same steps, I found the gems I had installed stopped working. I though this might happen so I made a back up first and was unable to recover. Is there a way to install it without disturbing the previously installed libriaries or should I just bite the bullet and re-install them? I am also begining to think that installing it in the default location might not have been a good idea as it would be hard to tell what files are ruby and what are not if other things were also installed in this location also. I am guessing there is no such thing as make uninstall?
I know this may not be the answer you're looking for, but I highly recommend you take a look at pik, which is a Ruby version manager that works on Windows.
It's similar to rvm, which is the de-facto way to install and manage Rubies on Mac OS and *nix.
How can i find out this information?
Ie,
I can install boost 1.35 with a command like
sudo port install boost
only to get boost 1.36 via port i would do something like this?
sudo port install boost-1.36
Hope that clears up my question
I believe this is the relevant ticket.
There's a new Portfile in the ticket, and that works fine for me.
I believe the ticket is still open because of issues relating to Python and MPI.
Boost 1.36 is already available for OS X: http://www.boost.org/users/download/version_1_36_0
Not sure exactly what you're asking, but OS X is a supported platform for that release and the sources download is the same for all platforms.
The Boost website distributes source code, which may be compiled on any supported platform (including Macs). It is, therefore, available now.
That depends on what package manager you're using. OS X doesn't come with one, so any packaging will be by third parties. If you install software using MacPorts, please file a bug requesting an updated version of the Boost package.
Now that I see you're looking for a MacPorts update, in addition to filing a bug as John suggested, you may find it useful to contact the boost macport package maintainer and ask when it might be available. Contact info is available here: http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=library&substr=boost