"no such file or directory" with updated postgis staging into destroot

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 29, 2007, at 22:41, Jeff Stubbs wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>
>> ... but you're interested in it. Would you consider becoming the  
>> maintainer?
>
> Possibly. Right now I feel a little overwhelmed dealing with MP's  
> API and the complexity of trying to build the grass package. That's  
> actually a good sign....  <grin>   If I can manage those tasks, I'd  
> feel more competent as a port's maintainer
>
>> One thing to do would be to check (perhaps with 'otool -L') and  
>> see if any of the postgis binary files link against one of those  
>> libraries or not.
>
> otool reports that only postgresql and libiconv are dependecies.  
> pgsql is reported in /opt/local, but for some reason, postgis is  
> picking up the iconv library in /usr/lib. Even if I tweak the  
> configure.args directive to point to the libiconv port.
>
> I thought I read in the MP guide, that MP sets the LDFLAGS to point  
> to the /opt/local/lib directory. Something must be hardwired in the  
> makefile or configure script. I'll dig deeper.
>
>
> Slightly off topic: I like Simon's ruby script that list all the  
> dependencies of a port. Also Ryan had posted an graphic image of a  
> certain port's dependencies. Is there a MP port that can  
> automatically create a graphic image of a port's requirements. I  
> tried manually with OmniGraffle, but got bogged down in the details.

I don't think so. I create my dependency images with a PHP script I  
wrote. My hope is that the MacPorts web site can eventually show each  
port's dependency graph.