On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:37 PM, Kevin Jorissen <kevinjorissenpdx@gmail.com> wrote:

I can concur with others here that making something work on Mac can be a miserable experience.

That’s the opposite of my experience.

Anyway, I tried "sudo port install p5.16-ifeffit" and failed:

~/Downloads% sudo port install p5.16-ifeffit ---> Computing dependencies for p5.16-ifeffit

---> Dependencies to be installed: ifeffit pgplot perl5.16 gdbm

---> Extracting pgplot

Error: org.macports.extract for port pgplot returned: command execution failed

Error: Failed to install pgplot

Please see the log file for port pgplot for details:

/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_graphics_pgplot/pgplot/main.log

Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ifeffit pgplot perl5.16 gdbm

To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:

http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets

Error: Processing of port p5.16-ifeffit failed

~/Downloads%

(This is upon rerunning the command - the first time, it installed many more dependencies -- does anyone else suspect "port" of being designed to fill hard disks as fast as possible?) System is 10.9 generally up-to-date with most things. pgplot seems to fail during extraction.

The pgplot port extracts and installs fine for me on OS X (10.6 through 10.9). But this is completely off-topic for this list. Please go to the Macports users mailing list [1] for support about this issue.

I doubt that I'd be able to contribute a lot to this project, but I can test things.

That is helpful.

Also I'm surprised to read so much about gfortran about this thread, but maybe I'm missing some common knowledge on the project ... I am generally much happier with Ifort.

gfortran is the only fortran compiler that will work with Macports since it is open source.