With the advent of 10.5, MacPorts has had to undergo a lot of updates, some of which have been painfully slow in coming. As a freelance security consultant, I *have* to have TinyCA2 working. Unfortunately, the MacPort project to update it for 10.5 took five months before the trouble ticket was finally even assigned to a maintainer. (I suppose these guys have a lot to do.) So here are some workarounds to make it compile under Leopard:
- Edit the files (as root) that are listed in the error output (I had six instances total in four different files) following the command sudo port install tinyca2.
- In those files, delete the ' character (apostrophe) mentioned on the line number indicated, which follows the colon in the error output. (If you use nano to edit the files, press Contrl-C to find the current line number.) These are in commented lines, but for some reason, they still keep the files from being processed.
- cd to the directory mentioned in the error output (probably /opt » local » var » macports » build » _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_security_tinyca2 » work » tinyca2-0.7.3 » po) and edit (as root) the language file mentioned in the error output. Change anything not important (ie add a space to the end of the file), then save the file.
- Re-run the sudo port install command.
- Edit the new language file mentioned in the error output, and do the same thing again (edit, change inconsequential info, save).
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