Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#21041 closed defect (invalid)

Macports goes berserk when asked to install plplot

Reported by: david@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.8.0
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

Not sure where to turn to on this.

It would seem a simple install from the Darwinports webpage, but when the instruction 'sudo port install plplot' is given, Macports installed what looks like an entire Unix system on my Macbook Pro. What do Apache, Ruby, Sqlite and PHP have to do with plplot? These are just a few of dozens of unrelated applications installed. Obviously something has gone very wrong.

Happy to send you the logfile (presuming macports creates one) to show what happened. It has taken about 3 hours to install plplots with all the subsidiary junk.

Leopard 10.5.8 MacBook Pro

Regards

David Nicholls

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by david@…

OK, I've just done an 'uninstall tree' process to see what depends on what. It appears there are dependency trees as follows: plplot > swig > php5 > apache2 and swig > ruby

So macports was just doing what it oughta. It might be a good idea to edit the page at plplot dot darwinports dot com to alert people that a whole bunch of dependencies (big ones) need to be installed first, and that it could take hours.

comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by tobypeterson

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

Sigh. DarwinPorts

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