[be] Installing Bibledit on Mac OS X

[Simon Lindén]

Hi!

I'm using OS X 10.7.5 and I've been advised to try out Bibleedit for a new translation we're working on. I've followed the guidelines on the bibledit homepage for installing on 10.6 (there is no guidelines for 10.7) but I can't get the installation to go through. I have virtually no idea of what I'm doing so I'm giving you the full account of what's happened since I can't discern what information is important and what is not.

Installing the dependencies seemed to work well but when I typed "port install bibledit" I got this message: "Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install prefix".

So I tried the alternate course of installing it from source. I downloaded the source (both version 4.1 and 4.6) and followed the instructions. When I typed "./configure" I got the following output:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d

checking for gawk... no

checking for mawk... no

checking for nawk... no

checking for awk... awk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking for suffix of executables... 

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99

checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) -std=gnu99

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E

checking for g++... g++

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes

checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes

checking dependency style of g++... gcc3

checking for gcc... (cached) gcc

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed

checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep

checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes

checking for GTK... no

configure: error: Gtk2 development version is needed.

I assumed that gtk2 had not been installed properly so I attempted to do it again.

bash-3.2$ sudo port install gtk2

Password:

--->  Computing dependencies for gtk2

--->  Cleaning gtk2

--->  Updating database of binaries: 100.0%

--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%

--->  No broken files found.

I then went back to the original plan - letting macports install it. I googled the error above and found that perhaps I should just put in the keyword "sudo" before the installation command. This is the output I was given:

bash-3.2$ sudo port install bibledit

Password:

--->  Computing dependencies for bibledit

--->  Dependencies to be installed: nspr

--->  Fetching archive for nspr

--->  Attempting to fetch nspr-4.9.5_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/nspr

--->  Attempting to fetch nspr-4.9.5_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/nspr

--->  Installing nspr @4.9.5_0

--->  Activating nspr @4.9.5_0

--->  Cleaning nspr

--->  Fetching archive for bibledit

--->  Attempting to fetch bibledit-4.5_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/bibledit

--->  Attempting to fetch bibledit-4.5_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/bibledit

--->  Attempting to fetch bibledit-4.5_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/bibledit

--->  Fetching distfiles for bibledit

--->  Attempting to fetch bibledit-gtk-4.5.tar.gz from http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/bibledit

--->  Verifying checksum(s) for bibledit

--->  Extracting bibledit

--->  Configuring bibledit

--->  Building bibledit

Error: org.macports.build for port bibledit returned: command execution failed

Please see the log file for port bibledit for details:

/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_bibledit/bibledit/main.log

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Error: Processing of port bibledit failed

I won't attach the whole log but I found one warning message in the end which might be relevant:

:info:build Warning: targets not executed for bibledit: org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install

Sorry for the long post but if anyone has any idea how to help me get this up and running I'd be very grateful. Is there a way to check if the dependencies have not been installed properly? It seemed to work when I did it but I am completely unfamiliar with these terminal outputs. Also, since there was no information about installing on OS X 10.7, does that mean a different route should be taken?

BG,

Simon Lindén