Hi Frank,

thanks for responding ...  I merely wanted to do you the favor of giving feedback on an experimental solution you solicited feedback for.

After wiping and reinstalling macports, your port also installs.  I probably don't want to know why.

Cheers,

Kevin



On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Schima, Frank <frank.schima@nist.gov> wrote:

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:
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. 


Cheers!
Frank

[1] <https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users>

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