I'm trying to install libusb-devel using Macports on a friend's Mac (we need it in order to install Osceleton). On my computer, the installation went perfectly well, but I'm stuck while installing it on his.
One of the dependencies of libusb-devel is curl. However, installing curl seems to fail. During the configuration of curl, an error message is shown and the installation quits. I'm referred to the log, where this is the relevant part for the error:
:info:configure configure: found both libz and libz.h header
:info:configure checking for "/dev/urandom"... configure: error: cannot check for file existence when cross compiling
:info:configure shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_net_curl/work/curl-7.21.4-ppc" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-ipv6 --without-gnutls --without-gssapi --without-librtmp --without-libssh2 --without-nss --without-polarssl --without-spnego --with-ssl --disable-ares --disable-ldap --disable-ldaps --with-libidn --with-zlib=/opt/local --disable-dependency-tracking --with-ca-bundle=/opt/local/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt --host=powerpc-apple-darwin10.7.0 " returned error 1
:error:configure Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
:debug:configure Backtrace: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
while executing
"$procedure $targetname"
:info:configure Warning: the following items did not execute (for curl): org.macports.destroot org.macports.configure org.macports.build
:notice:configure Log for curl is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_net_curl/main.log
If I run the configure-script myself, using the command given in the log, all goes well and curl is perfectly installed. However, Macports is not happy with this, because I get errors telling me that certain files already exist etc. Also, installing curl directly using Macports seems to give trouble.
Because of this, I can't continue the installation of libusb-devel, and we need it quite soon for a school project. Can anyone help?
TIA
Looks like MacPorts thinks it's cross-compiling for PowerPC. Make sure you've got the right version of MacPorts installed. If you're not using MacPorts for anything else, just blow away /opt/local and install from here.