MacPorts error 77
I ran into an issue where I needed to update the command line version of SVN on my Mac to 1.5.x. After a little research it looked easy, install MacPorts and then run a sudo port install subversion to get the latest version of Subversion.
Unfortunately things went downhill real fast. I kept getting an Error 77 and a list of dependencies that needed to be installed. I figured error 77 was related to the dependencies so I tried to install the dependencies first, no dice and error 77 kept showing up.
Here's the error.
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncursesw/work/ncurses-5.6" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-widec --disable-rpath --with-shared --without-debug --without-ada --enable-safe-sprintf --enable-sigwinch --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 77
After a lot of digging I came across an obscure post that mentioned you need XCode installed to get Subversion running. After a massive XCode download and install, fired up ports again, installed the dependencies (this post was super helpful) and presto, svn 1.5.4.
