Gimp Error

[Lenore Horner]

(No. Bottom posting is harder to read. The reader must scroll past  
all the stuff already read to get to new content.)

Why isn't pear (is that the source of the perl5.8 ?) going to be  
broken by having its version of the file overwritten with the one  
gimp wants?

Lenore

On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:11 PM, William Davis wrote:

>
> 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....... ;)