Problem installing readline

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 14, 2007, at 02:57, Thomas Schober wrote:

> 2007/8/14, Ryan Schmidt:
>
>> On Aug 14, 2007, at 02:25, Thomas Schober wrote:
>>
>> > 2007/8/14, Ryan Schmidt:
>> >
>> >> On Aug 14, 2007, at 01:41, Thomas Schober wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > # $Id: Portfile 22478 2007-03-02 05:16:40Z  
>> pipping at macports.org $
>> >> >
>> >> > PortSystem 1.0
>> >> > name          readline-5
>> >> > set shortname readline
>> >> > version               5.0.005
>> >>
>> >> [snip]
>> >>
>> >> Oh. Your readline port is very out of date. Probably all your  
>> other
>> >> ports are too. You need to get into the habit of running "sudo  
>> port
>> >> sync" before you begin installing ports on a given day, to pull  
>> the
>> >> new port definitions from our server. readline is currently at
>> >> version 5.2.001, not 5.0.005. Sync, then try installing readline
>> >> again. Presumably this problem has already been fixed. Also run  
>> "port
>> >> outdated" to see what other ports you may need to update now.  
>> Also do
>> >> "sudo port selfupdate" occasionally to make sure you have the  
>> latest
>> >> version of MacPorts base.
>> >
>> > Ok, i will try this when i am at home today evening. I synced about
>> > 2 weeks ago and made a selfupdate about 2 weeks ago. Update
>> > Frequency seems to be very high :)
>>
>> Oh. I'm sorry. I misread. You're not installing readline, you're
>> installing readline-5. readline was updated to 5.2.001 way back on
>> 2007-03-19, but readline-5 is still at 5.0.005.
>>
>> Why are you installing readline-5 instead of readline? It looks like
>> the only port that depends on readline-5 is ghc, and that only on Mac
>> OS X 10.3.x. But you said you're running 10.4.10. Are you trying to
>> install ghc?
>
> No i am trying to install subversion and readline is a dependency  
> of it. I don't know if i need 5.2, the only thig i did is :
>
> sudo port install readline
>
> I don't really care which version of readline i get. But thats all  
> automatic by MacPorts.

Ah yes, subversion depends on apr-util, which depends on sqlite3,  
which depends on readline. It does not depend on readline-5, and  
readline-5 would not satisfy the readline dependency. So we're back  
to my previous suggestions regarding potential changes to the  
readline port you could try:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-August/ 
005009.html