inkscape

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 08:38 -0500, Don Wilde wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke
> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>         On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 20:55 -0500, Don Wilde wrote:
>         > Gentlemen -
>         >
>         > I've had problems getting inkscape to work for some time
>         now.
>         >
>         > It appears that the port wants Hans Boehm's GC 6.4+, but the
>         config checker
>         > segfaults on FreeBSD 7-STABLE. My system has a newer Boehm
>         collector, I
>         > believe 7.0, installed. Inkscape repeatedly tries to install
>         6.8 and fails.
>         
>         
>         The devel/boehm-gc port is only at version 6.8.  If you have
>         7.0, then
>         you've installed something outside of ports which is not
>         supported.  I
>         recommend you clean up any boehm-gc bits on your system, then
>         go
>         to /usr/ports/devel/boehm-gc, and run make rmconfig.  Then
>         install
>         boehm-gc with a default config, and try out inkscape.
>         
>         To be clear, inkscape works fine for me (that I've been able
>         to test) on
>         RELENG_7.
>         
>         Joe
> 
> Joe, you hit the nail on the head, I think, but I'm having a problem
> following your advice. I can't seem to delete the port. You're correct
> in that I selected threading and redirect as options when installing
> boehm-gc, but now it won't deinstall cleanly. make deinstall completes
> without complaint, but 
> 
> 
> ===>  Checking if devel/boehm-gc already installed
> ===>   An older version of devel/boehm-gc is already installed
> (boehm-gc+threaded+redirect-6.8)
> 
> happens when I try to reinstall or make install. I've included the
> port maintainer (stas@) in this thread, as I'd like to have some
> blessing from smarter folks than I before I run FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes
> on something as important as libgc. 

You need to do a make deinstall-all if you changed options before
deinstalling.  

Joe

> 
> 
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