cannot upgrade fftw

[thyAnger]

I try to upgrade outdated ports and the first entry is fftw. I tried sudo port clean fftw and sudo port upgrade fftw but nothing.

valerio$ sudo port upgrade fftw
--->  Computing dependencies for fftw
--->  Fetching archive for fftw
--->  Attempting to fetch fftw-2.1.5_7+gcc48.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/fftw
--->  Attempting to fetch fftw-2.1.5_7+gcc48.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/fftw
--->  Attempting to fetch fftw-2.1.5_7+gcc48.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/fftw
--->  Fetching distfiles for fftw
--->  Verifying checksums for fftw
--->  Extracting fftw
--->  Applying patches to fftw
--->  Configuring fftw
--->  Building fftw
--->  Staging fftw into destroot
Error: org.macports.destroot for port fftw returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port fftw for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_fftw/fftw/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
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[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

Sorry for the late reply. I can't seem to produce this error but it seems to be related to a a version of texinfo >5.0. I can apply a patch but wonder if it's worth it since this version of fftw is no longer developed. Is there a particular reason you need fftw 2?

[thyAnger]

Replying to sean@…:

Sorry for the late reply. I can't seem to produce this error but it seems to be related to a a version of texinfo >5.0. I can apply a patch but wonder if it's worth it since this version of fftw is no longer developed. Is there a particular reason you need fftw 2?

Don't worry about it, I uninstalled fftw. It was long time I didn't switch on my mac and I wanted to upgrade some suffs, but actually I don't know what fftw was needed for!

[ian.hinder@…]

I have experienced the same problem. fftw is currently a recommended package for the Einstein Toolkit (einsteintoolkit.org); I can check to see if it is absolutely essential; I think we can use fftw3 instead. However, if the port doesn't work, and isn't going to be fixed, it should probably be officially removed?

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

Replying to ian.hinder@…:

I have experienced the same problem. fftw is currently a recommended package for the Einstein Toolkit (einsteintoolkit.org); I can check to see if it is absolutely essential; I think we can use fftw3 instead. However, if the port doesn't work, and isn't going to be fixed, it should probably be officially removed?

Heh, I always wondered what had happened to Cactus. Now, I know. Anyway, yes, I would love to move users of fftw to fftw3 which I think I will do soon unless there are major objections.

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

I'll work on replacing fftw by fftw3 once I figure out this yorick-yeti dependency.