The following dependencies failed to build

Joel Thibault (MacPorts) pgijnxn02 at sneakemail.com
Tue Oct 23 20:12:33 PDT 2007


I thought I'd experiment, and libbonobo builds when I take out the
depends-on-libgnome line in the Portfile.  Huzzah!

Looks like my problem is solved now.  Onward to gnucash ;-)


On 10/23/07, Ryan Schmidt ryandesign-at-macports.org |MacPorts|
<6jbrjqdko90t at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>


-- 
Joel Thibault [AIM: Jole Tebo]
Software Engineer in Boston


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