The following dependencies failed to build

[Ryan Schmidt]

libgnome depends on libbonobo, and libbonobo depends on libgnome!  
That's certainly a no-no. The port's maintainer will have to remove  
one of those dependencies, since circular dependencies are not allowed.


On Oct 23, 2007, at 20:33, Joel Thibault (MacPorts) wrote:

> Aha!  I've narrowed it down a bit:
>
> joel at minimac ~ $ sudo port install -duc libbonobo
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnome
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> joel at minimac ~ $ sudo port install -duc libgnome
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> joel at minimac ~ $ port deps libbonobo | grep lib
> libbonobo has build dependencies on:
> libbonobo has library dependencies on:
>        glib2
>        libgnome
>        libxml2
>        libiconv
> libbonobo has runtime dependencies on:
>
> joel at minimac ~ $ port deps libgnome | grep lib
> libgnome has library dependencies on:
>        libbonobo
>        dbus-glib
>        libiconv
>
> What's the best way to overcome this?
>
>
> On 10/23/07, Joel Thibault (MacPorts) <pgijnxn02 at sneakemail.com>  
> wrote:
>> ... but I can't seem to figure out why.  Usually I would expect to  
>> see
>> the error, but
>> it's not telling me anything more than that.
>>
>> While attempting to upgrade gnucash, several gnome-related packages
>> wouldn't build.  I tried resyncing MacPorts, doing uninstall -f and
>> clean --all, removing "work" directories, and they're still not
>> working.  Using the -d flag also doesn't give me any more  
>> information.
>>  Do you have any suggestions as to what might be wrong?  Also where I
>> might find logs for this sort of thing.
>>
>> Here I am trying to upgrade the problematic packages:
>>
>> -----
>> joel at minimac ~ $ sudo port upgrade -ucd libgtkhtml3 libgnomeui
>> libbonoboui libbonobo libgnome evince
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnomeui
>> libbonoboui libbonobo libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonoboui
>> libbonobo libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonoboui
>> libbonobo libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnome libbonobo
>> libgnomeui libbonoboui
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonoboui
>> libbonobo libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libbonobo libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnome-desktop
>> libgnomeui libbonoboui libbonobo libgnome
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libgnomeui
>> libbonoboui libbonobo libgnome