Gimp Error

[William Davis]

On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Lenore Horner wrote:

> Sure, but is that now going to mess up his perl5.8 port?
> Lenore
>
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>
>> On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Mack Johnson wrote:
>>> trying to install gimp and I get this error. Can you tell me how  
>>> to fix this?
>>>
>>> You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it  
>>> needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port
>>
>> This line that you pasted has your answer:
>>
>> port -f activate p5-pathtools
>>
>>> --->  Installing p5-pathtools 3.25_0
>>> --->  Activating p5-pathtools 3.25_0
>>> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ 
>>> local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level/auto/Cwd/Cwd.bs is being used  
>>> by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first,  
>>> or use the -f flag to force the activation.
>>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gimp2  
>>> libgnomeui libbonoboui libbonobo p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools popt  
>>> libgnome esound audiofile gnome-vfs gconf gnome-mime-data howl  
>>> neon openssl libgnomecanvas gail libglade2 libgtkhtml libmng  
>>> autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext libtool m4 automake lcms  
>>> librsvg libcroco libgsf libwmf poppler poppler-data py25-gtk py25- 
>>> cairo py25-numeric python25 py25-gobject
>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>>

No it shouldnt mess up pear. It will just update this file.
BTW bottom posting is easier to read....... ;)