[Ifeffit] Demeter 0.9.19

Thu Jan 9 23:37:19 CST 2014

I can concur with others here that making something work on Mac can be a
miserable experience.  Sometimes you have to admit defeat and change the
approach.

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.

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

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.

Cheers,

Kevin

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Schima, Frank <frank.schima at nist.gov> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
>  On Jan 9, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Matt Newville <newville at cars.uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov> wrote:
>
> On 01/09/2014 08:24 AM, Stefano Luciano Ciurli wrote:
>
>
> Hello Bruce and thank you for your hard work!
> instructions to install on OS X 10.6.8?
>
>
> There is not a Mac package.  I do not own a Mac and and so do not have
> the ability to develop a Mac package on my own.
>
> Over the years, no one has ever stepped up to help me develop a Mac
> package for Demeter.  (Or Debian packages, or RedHat packages, for
> that matter.)
>
>
> Well, I have *tried* many times, and put a fair amount of time in
> getting Demeter to work on a Mac.   What I have not done is *succeed*.
>  I can tell you that getting wxPerl to work on Mac OSX is far from
> simple.  Though Demeter is many years old now, and I've tried many
> times over the years (and I using wxPython on Mac all the time), it is
> only within the past few months that I have ever gotten wxPerl to
> actually build on any Mac, and this was a 10.8 machine.  Currently
> (though I haven't looked at it in more than a month), getting the
> Ifeffit-Perl interface to build properly with Mac OS 10.8 has me
> stumped, as Apple is now using llvm/clang, making it challenging to
> work well with gfortran.
>
> Migrating Demeter to use Larch should simplify the situation, as it
> would remove the need for the Ifeffit-Perl interface.
>
> Frankly, the work I do on the Windows package takes a
> lot of time.  The only way I can claim that time fits in my job
> description is because my group uses Windows machines at our
> beamlines.  Help would be welcome to develop packages for Mac and
> other platforms, but despite repeated requests over many years, no one
> has ever volunteered and actually seen it through to completion.
>
>
> Yes, help building Demeter for Mac OSX would be great.
>
>
>  I too have put a lot of work into making Demeter run on OS X. I have
> been attempting to make a port of it in Macports [1] so it is easy to
> install and/or have a package installer created.
>
>  The good news is that along the way I have successfully created a port
> of ifeffit [2] that builds fine for me on 10.9 and should work all the way
> down to 10.6. I utilize gcc for gfortran. I believe the ifeffit-perl
> bindings [3] work too. After you install Macports [4], you can simply type:
>
>  sudo port install p5.16-ifeffit
>
>  The bad news is that my in progress Demeter port does not work yet. The
> problem I’m stuck on is getting the perl-wx port [5] built. I have not been
> able to get it built with the new wx-widgets version 3.0.0 that is in
> Macports. The perl-wx people apparently don’t have support for that version
> of wx yet and they never respond to my queries about it on the mailing
> list.
>
>  I encourage people to test out ifeffit on OS X through Macports and give
> me feedback - positive or negative. Thanks to Bruce for his support during
> this endeavor.
>
>
>  Cheers!
> Frank
>
>  [1] <http://www.macports.org>
> [2] <
> https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/science/ifeffit/Portfile>
>  [3] <
> https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/perl/p5-ifeffit/Portfile>
> [4] <http://www.macports.org/install.php>
> [5] <https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/perl/p5-wx/Portfile>
>
>
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