[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: liblouis on MacPorts
- From: David Sweetman <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 15:02:54 -0400
The version on MacPorts actually installs fine — the problem you’re getting is
that you’ve already installed liblouis in the same place MacPorts is attempting
to install it. You could force an overwrite as the error message suggests by
running ‘port -f activate liblouis’
In any case I feel fairly sure that bundling the library with your app when
providing it to end-users is the preferred distribution model (while providing
options to use system-provided liblouis versions and especially user-provided
tables, as specified by the license). If this is the case, a MacPorts/Homebrew
installers would mostly benefit developers. For end-users, there are too many
variables you can’t control if you’re trying to build from source and install
system-wide binaries — you’ve encountered plenty of them, imagine trying to
respond to support requests from non-developers on these types of issues.
Bundling the library removes most of those variables. Anyway that’s just my 2c;
it would be great to keep the MacPorts version more up-to-date.
On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would think that we should update the liblouis and liblouistdml packages on
> MacPorts, short of having a reliable standard installer this may be the best
> way for end users to get these. The current versions are out of date and will
> not longer install from MacPorts generating the following:
>
> gkearney$ sudo port install liblouis
> Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them
> by running 'port selfupdate'.
> ---> Fetching archive for liblouis
> ---> Attempting to fetch liblouis-2.1.1_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from
> http://packages.macports.org/liblouis
> ---> Attempting to fetch liblouis-2.1.1_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from
> http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/liblouis
> ---> Attempting to fetch liblouis-2.1.1_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from
> http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/liblouis
> ---> Fetching distfiles for liblouis
> ---> Attempting to fetch liblouis-2.1.1.tar.gz from
> http://distfiles.macports.org/liblouis
> ---> Verifying checksums for liblouis
> ---> Extracting liblouis
> ---> Configuring liblouis
> ---> Building liblouis
> ---> Staging liblouis into destroot
> ---> Installing liblouis @2.1.1_0
> ---> Activating liblouis @2.1.1_0
> Error: org.macports.activate for port liblouis returned: Image error:
> /opt/local/lib/liblouis.2.dylib already exists and does not belong to a
> registered port. Unable to activate port liblouis. Use 'port -f activate
> liblouis' to force the activation.
> Please see the log file for port liblouis for details:
>
> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_liblouis/liblouis/main.log
> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
> http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
> Error: Processing of port liblouis failed
>
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