This morning I decided to upgrade my Mac to Subversion 1.5 using MacPorts. But during the install process, one of the dependencies, sqlite, failed with the following error:
---> Building sqlite3 with target all
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_databases_sqlite3/work/sqlite-3.6.2" && gnumake all " returned error 2
Command output: sort -n -b -k 3 opcodes.h | -f ./mkopcodec.awk >opcodes.c
/bin/sh: -f: command not found
gnumake: *** [opcodes.c] Error 127
It took a bit of searching, but it turns out the solution was pretty simple:
~$ sudo port clean sqlite3 ; sudo port install sqlite3
Password:
---> Cleaning sqlite3
---> Fetching sqlite3
---> Verifying checksum(s) for sqlite3
---> Extracting sqlite3
---> Configuring sqlite3
---> Building sqlite3 with target all
---> Staging sqlite3 into destroot
---> Installing sqlite3 3.6.2_0
---> Activating sqlite3 3.6.2_0
---> Cleaning sqlite3
Once that was done, I was able to complete the subversion install without trouble.
Overall, MacPorts has been a huge asset, and worked so well that I haven’t really needed to learn much about it. If you need unix tools installed on your OS X Mac, I highly recommend it.
Thanks