Gnome ports messed up (dependency loops)

Christopher Arnold chris at arnold.se
Fri Apr 4 16:24:16 UTC 2008



On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Denise H. G. wrote:

> Christopher Arnold <chris at arnold.se> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Denise H. G. wrote:
>>
>>> Clint Olsen <clint.olsen at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> After a few days of portupgrading and cussing, I got things updated, but
>>>> portupgrade takes eons because of these messages:
>>>>
>>>> ===>   Registering installation for eel-2.22.1
>>>> pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package libgnomeui-2.22.01:x11-toolkits/libgnomeui
>>>> pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package gnome-desktop-2.22.0:x11/gnome-desktop
>>>> pkg_create: dependency loop detected for package gnome-desktop-2.22.0:x11/gnome-desktop
>>>> ===>  Cleaning for eel-2.22.1
>>>>
>>>> Of course, nothing here tells me what is precisely looping.  Is it an
>>>> immediate loop or indirect loop?
>>>>
>>> Manually run 'pkgdb -Fu'. It might help.
>>>
>> Following the information in /usr/pors/UPDATING takes care of the
>> dependency loop...
>> (And yes it includes pkgdb -Ff)
>>
>> So it got me further, but i still have issues with compoiling gnome2,
>> gnome2-power-tools and evince.
>>
>> I belive evince is the showstopper here with:
>> checking for gsapi_new_instance in -lgs... no
>> configure: error: You need libgs in order to compile libspectre
>>
>>
>> Am i the only one? Or is everyone else also waiting for a final update
>> taking care of this?
>
> I don't have problems compiling libspectre or evince. Have you updated
> your ports tree to the latest? My box is 7-STABLE/amd64.
>
Yes it is libspectre haveing a hard time to compile, evince and gnome 
depend on it.

Yes a completly fresh ports from today and im running on 6.3-STABLE from 
March the 16'th.


 	/Chris


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