[21414] trunk/dports/graphics/gd/Portfile

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Jan 23 23:55:53 PST 2007


On Jan 24, 2007, at 01:50, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> I have now determined that there is exactly one port that depends  
> on gd: cvsgraph. The port is at version 1.5.0. The changelog for  
> version 1.5.2 includes "Fix configure script to detect gd-2  
> problems" so perhaps the current version of cvsgraph, 1.6.1, will  
> work properly with gd2. cvsgraph has no maintainer, and I don't use  
> CVS, so perhaps someone else could take a look at whether cvsgraph  
> can be updated to 1.6.1 and made to use gd2 instead of gd. Then we  
> can delete the gd port.

You know what? I just did "sudo port install cvsgraph" and it happily  
downloaded and installed cvsgraph 1.5.0, without downloading or  
installing gd, even though cvsgraph allegedly has library  
dependencies on it. So I don't know what to make of that.




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