[Ifeffit] Demeter under El Capitan

[Matt Newville]

Hi Zack,

Thanks -- I had a very bad time trying a fresh install of macports on El
Capitan, with several successive errors with Xorg and various packages.  I
also think that macports needing to install 2 different versions of gcc
from source is really quite ridiculous and we should not be relying on such
a system.

Anyway, I'll try your suggestions and report back here.

--Matt



On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Zack Gainsforth <zackg at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I am running under El Capitan and previously under Yosemite.  I didn’t
> really have trouble with the installation, though I do note that after you
> upgrade the OS, you need to reinstall ALL of macports from scratch
> sometimes.  That means nuke the old directory, download macports from the
> website and install it and then install each package.  And have patience,
> it can take hours to install all dependencies.  I usually let it run
> overnight.
>
> I’m also using XQuartz.
>
> Macports has documentation about doing this:
>
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
>
> and if that fails:
>
> https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html
>
> I would try reinstall first, and then if there is still trouble, dig
> deeper.
>
> Zack
>
> (Note, I’ve only used Hephaestus and Athena on El Capitan.  But Artemis
> worked for me on Yosemite.)
>
> On Nov 9, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Fowler, Joseph W. <joe.fowler at nist.gov> wrote:
>
> Bruce, Scott, Manuel:
>
> I’m the MacPorts maintainer for demeter and ifeffit, but I’m afraid I have
> not been much help lately.
>
> I’m sorry that I have not chimed in about any of the recent reports Mac /
> Macports problems under El Capitan. It so happens that my employer (US
> National Institute of Standards and Technology) does not let us upgrade to
> Yosemite OR El Capitan. They own the only Macs to which I have access, so I
> can only work under Mavericks. I’m afraid that artemis, hephaestus, and
> athena all start properly for me.
>
> To Manuel from Grenoble, all I can say is that xorg-server has a lot of
> dependencies, and it will take a long time to install the needed ports the
> first time. I would not think an entire hour is out of the question,
> depending on your connection speed and computer performance.
>
> To the others having trouble *running *(as opposed to installing), I
> wonder if anyone in the community is having success with the demeter suite
> under El Capitan? If so, we’d all be grateful if you could let us know what
> tricks were required. I am totally helpless on OS 10.10 and 10.11-specific
> problems.
>
> Joe Fowler
> NIST Boulder Laboratories
>
>
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