Gnome ports messed up (dependency loops)

[Christopher Arnold]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> 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'.
>
ghostscript-gnu-7.07_17 GNU Postscript interpreter


 	/Chris

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