Re: ndiff on osx anomoly

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

n0mad,

Thank you for this very detailed bug report! The /Users/david/ path is a
leftover from our build system, and should not be present. I will work on
resolving this for the next BETA release. We will track this issue on our
issue tracker here: http://issues.nmap.org/201

Dan

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:55 PM, mail lyst <maillyst () gmail com> wrote:

> dev@nmap:
>
> on a relatively new mpb running 10.10.4, installed nmap 6.47 some
> months ago.  finally got round to using zenmap compare which failed in
> import of ndiff.  the rest of my nmap/nping use has been fine.
>
> on 8/17 I upgraded to 6.49beta and ndiff still fails - although it
> could certainly be something wrong in my environment.  see ***
> comments in the chronological flow of diagnostic queries and repair
> attempts.
>
> *** After 6/49 beta installation using installer, not source code
> compilation:
> $ ndiff x y
> -bash: /usr/local/bin/ndiff:
>
> /Users/david/macports-10.8/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Re:
> bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>
>
>
>
> *** i don't recall installing macports on this machine so .........
> $locate macports
> $ locate ndiff
> /Applications/MATLAB_R2015a.app/toolbox/mpc/mpc/@mpc/private/mpc_fundiff.m
>
> /Applications/MATLAB_R2015a.app/toolbox/simulink/simulink/@dependencies/@ModelDependencies/Indifferent.png
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/opendiff
>
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/libexec/git-core/mergetools/opendiff
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/man/man1/opendiff.1
>
> /Users/myname/bin/editors_ide/SmartGit.app/Contents/Resources/git/libexec/git-core/mergetools/opendiff
> /usr/bin/opendiff
> /usr/local/Library/Formula/ndiff.rb
> /usr/local/Library/Formula/vbindiff.rb
> /usr/local/bin/ndiff
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ndiff.py
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ndiff.pyc
> /usr/local/share/man/man1/ndiff.1
> /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc/images/smilies/indifferent.xpm
>
>
>
>
> *** no david uses this machine and macports not installed
> $ egrep -bHin david /usr/local/bin/ndiff
>
> /usr/local/bin/ndiff:1:0:#!/Users/david/macports-10.8/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
> /usr/local/bin/ndiff:13:426:# David Fifield
>
>
>
>
> *** not sure when the ndiff libs were installed but ...... they are in
> the wrong library
> $ ls -alt /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ndiff*
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel  54949 Aug 21  2014
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ndiff.pyc
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  54699 Aug 12  2014
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ndiff.py
>
>
>
> *** so i replaced david  macports python with
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
> $ sudo vi /usr/local/bin/ndiff
> *** didn't expect this to fix it given the library anomaly but now I'm
> back to the behavor I saw in nmap 6.47.
> $ ndiff x y
> Could not import the ndiff module: 'No module named ndiff'.
> I checked in these directories:
>     /usr/local/bin
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip
>     /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC
>     /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
> If you installed Ndiff in another directory, you may have to add the
> modules directory to the PYTHONPATH environment variable.
>
>
>
>
> *** so put ndiff.py* some place similar ala
> $sudo cp /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ndiff.py
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ndiff.py
> $ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ndiff.pyc
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ndiff.pyc
>
>
>
> *** which isn't enough to fix the problem so:
> PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/"
> export PYTHONPATH
> *** but that didn't solve the problem either, in fact pythonpath seems
> ineffective
> ndiff
> Could not import the ndiff module: 'No module named ndiff'.
> I checked in these directories:
>     /usr/local/bin
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip
>     /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC
>     /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
> If you installed Ndiff in another directory, you may have to add the
> modules directory to the PYTHONPATH environment variable.
>
> Sorry could not have been more help,
> n0mad
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