Problem when trying to install qt4-mac

[Marko Käning]

On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I believe you will find that there are already a zillion tickets filed for this, and that the solution is to run "sudo port selfupdate".

Jesus, I did do that beforehand. And still it would come up with that message.

Now that I retried that I suddenly get:
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$ sudo port -y install qt4-mac
--->  Computing dependencies for qt4-mac
--->  Dependencies to be installed: dbus expat pkgconfig glib2 autoconf help2man gettext libiconv gperf ncurses ncursesw p5.12-locale-gettext perl5.12 gdbm m4 perl5 perl5 perl5 automake libtool zlib jpeg libmng lcms tiff libpng openssl sqlite3 libedit
For expat: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For gperf: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For libiconv: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For ncursesw: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For ncurses: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For gettext: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For gdbm: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For perl5.12: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For p5.12-locale-gettext: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For help2man: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For m4: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For perl5: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For autoconf: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For perl5: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For perl5: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For automake: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For libtool: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For zlib: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For glib2: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For pkgconfig: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For dbus: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For jpeg: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For tiff: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For lcms: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For libmng: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For libpng: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For openssl: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For libedit: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For sqlite3: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
For qt4-mac: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
$
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which is what I expected in the first place.

I wonder why I saw the strange message about missing p5.12-locale-gettext dep.

I figure it would be nice if the ports command itself could give the user a more useful error message like it usually does when the ports tree is outdated!

Thanks again, Ryan, without your feedback I wouldn't have redone the selfupdate, since as I said, that's how I started my installation from scratch.

Greets,
Marko