Installing staden on Mac OS X 10.6.2

[Kerensa McElroy]

Hi Guys,

I've been trying, all day, to install Staden on Mac OS X 10.6.2. I've read as many posts as I can find about it, and I'm still failing.
Here are the problems:

If I run port install iwidgets, or port install itk, I get:

Warning: No port p5.12-locale-gettext found in the index.
-->  Computing dependencies for help2man
Error: Dependency 'p5.12-locale-gettext' not found.
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade tk failed
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I have attempted to install iwidgets from source, and I have managed to get it to configure, but the makefile doesn't behave for either make test:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/opt/local/lib/tklib0.5 :/opt/local/lib/itcl3.4/:/System/Library/Tcl/8.5/itk3.4/:; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH ; \
TCL_LIBRARY=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_tcl/tcl/work/tcl8.5.10/library; export TCL_LIBRARY; \
ITCL_LIBRARY=/opt/local/lib/itcl3.4//library; export ITCL_LIBRARY; \
TK_LIBRARY=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_tk/tk/work/tk8.5.10/library; export TK_LIBRARY; \
ITK_LIBRARY=/System/Library/Tcl/8.5/itk3.4//library; export ITK_LIBRARY; \
IWIDGETS_LIBRARY=/opt/local/lib/itcl3.4//../iwidgets4.0.0; export IWIDGETS_LIBRARY; \
/opt/local/lib/../bin/tclsh8.5 `echo ./tests/all.tcl` \
-exedir `echo /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_tk/tk/work/tk8.5.10/unix`
/bin/sh: :/opt/local/lib/itcl3.4/:/System/Library/Tcl/8.5/itk3.4/:: No such file or directory
WARNING: unknown option -exedir: should be one of -asidefromdir, -constraints, -debug, -errfile, -file, -limitconstraints, -load, -loadfile, -match, -notfile, -outfile, -preservecore, -relateddir, -singleproc, -skip, -testdir, -tmpdir, or -verbose
Using interp:
Running tests in working dir: /opt/local/lib/tcl8.5/iwidgets4.0.0/tests
Only running tests that match:  *
Skipping test files that match:  l.*.test
Only sourcing test files that match:  *.test
Tests began at Fri Nov 04 16:03:11 EST 2011
buttonbox.test
couldn't execute "": no such file or directory
couldn't open "/opt/local/lib/tcl8.5/iwidgets4.0.0/Log.txt": no such file or directory
calendar.test
couldn't execute "": no such file or directory
couldn't open "/opt/local/lib/tcl8.5/iwidgets4.0.0/Log.txt": no such file or directory
canvasprintbox.test
couldn't execute "": no such file or directory
couldn't open "/opt/local/lib/tcl8.5/iwidgets4.0.0/Log.txt": no such file or directory
canvasprintdialog.test
couldn't execute "": no such file or directory
couldn't open "/opt/local/lib/tcl8.5/iwidgets4.0.0/Log.txt": no such file or directory
checkbox.test
couldn't execute "": no such file or directory
couldn't open "/opt/local/lib/tcl8.5/iwidgets4.0.0/Log.txt": no such file or directory

(etc)

or make install:

make: /opt/local/lib/itcl3.4//../config/mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory
make: ***  Error 1

Any help would be much appreciated!

[James Bonfield]

Firstly, Iwidgets, Itk and Itcl are no longer required. They're still used by a few esoteric functions, but in normal operation I'd be suprised if anyone notices the difference.

Secondly, I think can you see why we made them no longer required! We too found them nigh on impossible to configure and build properly. So sorry I cannot really aid in specifics to get them working except to say you need precisely the correct versions of the dependencies for them to work. Too new as well as too old often breaks them.