Xaw3d can't activate

[opendarwin@…]

powerbook<1># port install Xaw3d ---> Fetching Xaw3d ---> Attempting to fetch Xaw3d-1.5E.tar.gz from ​ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/hawkeyd/X/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for Xaw3d ---> Extracting Xaw3d ---> Configuring Xaw3d ---> Building Xaw3d with target all ---> Staging Xaw3d into destroot ---> Packaging tgz archive for Xaw3d 1.5E_0 ---> Installing Xaw3d 1.5E_0 ---> Activating Xaw3d 1.5E_0 Error: Target com.apple.activate returned: Image error: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xaw3d/AllWidgets.h already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port Xaw3d.

Presumeably this doesn't work if one has the X11 development headers from Apple installed.

[jmpp@…]

All you need to do is supply the -f (force) flag to port(1) on the initial call to move the offending files aside and activate the port. You can now do "sudo port -f activate Xaw3d" and it should work.

-jmpp

[opendarwin@…]

You're missing the point. Nobody should *have* to do what you suggest. Darwin Ports is intended for Mac OS X systems. Mac OS X systems used by developers most likely have X Windows headers installed. The install procedure should account for the case where the header is /usr/X11R6/include is already installed. Nobody should have to move anything aside or touch anything outside of the /opt/local directory. A non-root user (or a user who chooses not to become root) who is installing Darwin Ports in his home directory certainly can't do this.

The port should be fixed to account for this case.

[olegb@…]

There are a bunch of problems that needs to be addressed if you choose to install as "non-root", though I agree that darwinport *should* be in ${prefix} only, this isn't always the case (some have good reason to break policy).

Lets leave this open and see what the maintainer says, its his call.

[toby@…]

I don't see /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xaw3d/AllWidgets.h on my system (10.4.1). I only see /usr/X11R6/ include/X11/Xaw/AllWidgets.h

[opendarwin@…]

(In reply to comment #4)

I don't see /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xaw3d/AllWidgets.h on my system (10.4.1). I only see /usr/X11R6/ include/X11/Xaw/AllWidgets.h

What can I tell you? I have both. Did you install all of the X11 development APIs from Apple? The point is that something else could have installed it. Since there can only be one /usr/X11R6 directory, you shouldn't assume that just because a file is already there that the install should fail. Is it impossible to ask the user what to do?

[toby@…]

AFAIK, the port(1) frontend will never be interactive; builds should either work... or not. Instead, we provide the -f option, which will make it work.

(And yes, I do have everything from Apple installed, and I know Apple doesn't ship Xaw3d.)

[toby@…]

Expected behavior. Unfortunately Xaw3d has to go there, and other stuff might be there.