problem upgrading gtk2

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 9, 2007, at 14:37, Joel Thibault (MacPorts) wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2007 3:37 AM, Michael Thon wrote:
>
>> When I try to upgrade gtk2 I get the following error:
>>
>>     /bin/sh: line 1: gtkdoc-rebase: command not found
>>
>> and I am unable to upgrade the package. This happens whether I use
>> "sudo port upgrade gtk2" or "sudo port -f upgrade gtk2".  "port
>> outdated" says that I have 2.12.1_0 installed and 2.12.3_0 is the
>> latest version. I don't know what gtkdoc-rebase is.  is it part of  
>> the
>> gtk-doc package?  That package is not installed on my system.

It is part of gtk-doc 1.9. gtk-doc is listed as a dependency of gtk2  
so I don't see how it could not be installed on your system. Are your  
ports up to date? Try selfupdate.

> I also had this problem.  I tracked it down via port -d to a bad  
> test for gtkdoc-rebase, something like:
>
> if `which gtkdoc-rebase` != "" then...
>
> Since this returns "no gtkdoc-rebase in [my path]" rather than "",  
> it then attempts to execute gtkdoc-rebase, and fails.  It appeared  
> to me to be an optional step, so I did a silly hack to make it look  
> like it did something: I aliased /usr/bin/gtkdoc-rebase to /usr/bin/ 
> true, and then the upgrade worked.
>
> I don't think this makes for a very good solution :-) so someone  
> who knows Macports much better than me should probably take a look  
> at this.

It's fixed, please see:

http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13510