Self Update failed, need advice

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I am having difficulties configuring software which requires boost, so i downloaded boost vi macports and received a notice to update ports. Below the messages received, i also pasted the boost error i get when configuring new software. my query is 2-part: how do i get past the update error, and is this related to my configrure unable to locate my

$ sudo port install boost Password: Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them by running 'port selfupdate'. ---> Computing dependencies for boost ---> Cleaning boost ---> Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0% ---> No broken files found. BigMacWithCheese-2:silix-1.2.8 nicblouin$ port selfupdate ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed Please run `port -v selfupdate' for details. Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed e-2:silix-1.2.8$ port -v selfupdate ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync receiving file list ... done rsync: mkstemp "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/.base.tar.sMd7I5" failed: Permission denied (13) inflate returned -3 (140 bytes) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/token.c(419) [receiver=2.6.9] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (31 bytes received so far) [generator] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/io.c(452) [generator=2.6.9] Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs Exit code: 12 Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:

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Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed e-2:silix-1.2.8$ e-2:silix-1.2.8 ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... no checking for awk... awk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking for gcc... gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 checking how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld checking if the linker (/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld) is GNU ld... no checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 196608 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking how to convert x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 file names to x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop checking for /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... no checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for dlltool... no checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n checking for ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... no checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for mt... no checking if : is a manifest tool... no checking for dsymutil... dsymutil checking for nmedit... nmedit checking for lipo... lipo checking for otool... otool checking for otool64... no checking for -single_module linker flag... yes checking for -exported_symbols_list linker flag... yes checking for -force_load linker flag... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fno-common -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fno-common -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... no checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin10.8.0 dyld checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for ld used by g++... /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld checking if the linker (/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld) is GNU ld... no checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fno-common -DPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fno-common -DPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... no checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin10.8.0 dyld checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes configure: Checking CppUnit checking for cppunit-config... no configure: CppUnit not found... unittesting disabled. Please install CppUnit configure: Checking Boost::program_options checking boost/program_options.hpp usability... no checking boost/program_options.hpp presence... no checking for boost/program_options.hpp... no configure: error: Boost::program_options header files were not found on the system... unable to compile. Please install Boost::program_options headers e-2:silix-1.2.8$

Thanks for any help

Nicolas Achille Blouin, Ph.D. Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881