Unable to open port: hdf5-18 +gcc47 not installed

[Sean Farley]

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu at macports.org> writes:

> On Feb 26, 2014, at 09:57, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-2-27 04:19 , Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>>> This failure seems odd to me.  What's going wrong here?  Was something possibly messed up with recent database issues, or is there a "real" problem?
>>> 
>>> $ sudo port list outdated
>>> netcdf-fortran                 @4.2            science/netcdf-fortran
>>> slib                           @3b4            devel/slib
>>> 
>>> $ sudo port -v -s upgrade outdated
>>> Error: Install hdf5-18 +gcc47
>>> Error: Unable to open port: hdf5-18 +gcc47 not installed
>>> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>>>    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
>>> 
>>> $ ls /opt/local/var/macports/software/hdf5-18/
>>> hdf5-18-1.8.12_1+cxx+universal.darwin_13.i386-x86_64.tbz2
>> 
>> Can you use -d and get a backtrace?
>
> Looks like it's from the compilers-1.0 PortGroup, from the mpi-1.0 PortGroup, from netcdf-fortran.
>
> Sean, this error message could be improved.  Perhaps it should tell the user to reinstall hdf-18 with the +gcc47 variant.

That's very true. I'm currently a little busy for the next week or two
studying so if someone else can get to it, that's fine by me.