[MacPorts] #23359: ghostscript fails to install on 10.6.2 SnowLeopard

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#23359: ghostscript fails to install on 10.6.2 SnowLeopard
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 Reporter:  msom@…                |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                 |     Version:  1.8.2                                
 Keywords:                        |        Port:  ghostscript                          
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 Yes, there were similar reports. I've found recommendations at the end of
 one of those:

 sudo port selfupdate
 sudo port upgrade --force installed

 and no report wether it helped.
 It did not help me. sudo port -v install ghostscript left the following
 error messages:

 /usr/bin/g++-4.2 -O2 -arch x86_64 -I. -I./../lib -c ./main.cc
 ./output.cc: In member function 'void Output::output_lookup_array()
 const':
 ./output.cc:1304: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3
 has type 'long int'
 /usr/bin/g++-4.2 -O2 -arch x86_64 -L/opt/local/lib -o gperf version.o
 positions.o options.o keyword.o keyword-list.o input.o bool-array.o hash-
 table.o search.o output.o main.o ../lib/libgp.a -lm
 ld: in ../lib/libgp.a, file too small
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 make[1]: *** [gperf] Error 1
 make: *** [all] Error 2
 Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd
 "/Users/msom/.macports/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_gperf/work/gperf-3.0.4"
 && /usr/bin/make -j8 all " returned error 2
 DEBUG: Backtrace: shell command " cd
 "/Users/msom/.macports/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_gperf/work/gperf-3.0.4"
 && /usr/bin/make -j8 all " returned error 2
     while executing
 "command_exec build"
     (procedure "portbuild::build_main" line 9)
     invoked from within
 "$procedure $targetname"
 Warning: the following items did not execute (for gperf):
 org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot
 org.macports.install
 Error: The following dependencies failed to build: autoconf help2man
 gettext libiconv gperf ncurses ncursesw p5-locale-gettext perl5 perl5.8 m4
 automake cairo fontconfig freetype zlib libpixman libpng pkgconfig xrender
 xorg-libX11 groff xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-
 libXau xorg-xproto xorg-libXdmcp xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-
 xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-renderproto jpeg libtool
 xorg-libXext xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice
 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/23359>
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