Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#35289 closed defect (worksforme)

expat: no destroot found — at Version 1

Reported by: avi.meth@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.1.1
Keywords: Cc: ryandesign@…
Port: expat

Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))

I have snow leopard & xcode 3.2.6. When I try to run port install git-flow, I get the following error:

Error: org.macports.install for port expat returned: no destroot found at: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_expat/expat/work/destroot
Error: Failed to install expat
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: getopt gettext expat libiconv ncurses git-core curl curl-ca-bundle libidn openssl zlib p5.12-error perl5.12 gdbm p5.12-term-readkey pcre bzip2 libedit python27 db46 python_select sqlite3 rsync popt
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Error: Processing of port git-flow failed

Any ideas?

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: ryandesign@… added
Description: modified (diff)
Port: expat added
Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed
Summary: error installing git-flowexpat: no destroot found

This is #29223. "sudo port clean expat" and try again. Cleaning and trying again is the first thing you should try anytime any port fails to install.

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