Gnome ports messed up (dependency loops)

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:24:12 -0500, Christopher Arnold <chris at arnold.se>  
wrote:

>
>
> 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.

Show us the output of 'pkg_info -IX ghostscript'.

Cheers,
Mezz

>  	/Chris


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