Gnucash fails to install: configure dbus-glib failure

[Randall Wood]

On 22 Apr 2007, at 18:11, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Apr 22, 2007, at 12:41, Randall Wood wrote:
>
>> On 22 Apr 2007, at 12:13, Bjorn Berg wrote:
>>
>>> So I'm new at this. Can I just type 'port uninstall dbus' on a  
>>> command line? How do I find those programs that are affected by  
>>> the newinstall, just run everything? Shouldn't this be a  
>>> consideration in the release of a new version that looks like its  
>>> capable of so much havoc?
>>
>> A simple "sudo port selfupdate ; sudo port outdated" should take  
>> care of uninstalling and reinstalling most outdated versions of  
>> software that depended on the older version of dbus.
>
> a) No, it won't: "sudo port outdated" will only show a list of  
> ports that are outdated; it will not update them.

Sorry. That should read "sudo port upgrade outdated"


> b) That wasn't the question. The question was, once dbus has been  
> upgraded, if it is an ABI-incompatible upgrade, how does one  
> identify all ports that depend on dbus (whether or not they are  
> outdated) so that they can be rebuilt? The answer is the the  
> depsearch script in the wiki:
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/ 
> ProblemHotlist#a2.Aportfailedtobuildupgradeorrunwithamessagereferringt 
> olibintl.3.dylib
>
> Bjorn: sorry, MacPorts isn't smart enough to do this on its own.  
> The port system does not track whether an upgrade is ABI-compatible  
> or not. It just knows whether there is an upgrade to a port. It's  
> up to you to confirm that everything still works after upgrading a  
> port, and rebuild any dependencies as needed. The depsearch script  
> above can help you identify what you need to do.
>
> You will, by the way, need "sudo port -f uninstall dbus", since  
> otherwise MacPorts will complain that some other port depends on  
> dbus. This may also be a way to determine which ports you need to  
> rebuild, though I do not know if this will be the same list  
> returned by depsearch.
>



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