eel fails to upgrade | 2.22.1_0 < 2.24.1_0 | 10.4.11 PPC

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:16:37PM +0100, Tobias Weisserth said:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> a lot of Gnome related ports still fail utterly when trying to upgrade.
> 
> I am trying to upgrade eel on a PowerBook with the latest MacPorts (details
> in the subject line).
> 
> When I run 'sudo port -fun upgrade eel' I get this:
> 

Any particular reason why you use -n when doing this?  It tells port not to
do dependencies, and since gnome-desktop is a dependency of eel, it isn't
being upgraded, and hence, fails.

Bryan


> --->  Fetching eel
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for eel
> --->  Extracting eel
> --->  Configuring eel
> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell
> command " cd
> "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_eel/work/eel-2.24.1"
> && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/share/man
> --enable-static=no " returned error 1
> Command output: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
> checking for pkg-config... /opt/local/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for STARTUP_NOTIFICATION... yes
> checking for EEL... configure: error: Package requirements (
>         gail                    >= 0.16
>         gconf-2.0               >= 1.1.11
>         gdk-pixbuf-2.0          >= 2
>         glib-2.0                >= 2.15.0
>         gio-2.0
>         gthread-2.0             >= 2.15.0
>         gtk+-2.0                >= 2.9.4
>         libglade-2.0            >= 2.0.0
>         libgnome-2.0            >= 2.23.0
>         libgnomeui-2.0          >= 2.7.92
>         gnome-desktop-2.0       >= 2.23.3
>         libxml-2.0              >= 2.4.7
>          libstartup-notification-1.0
> ) were not met:
> 
> Requested 'gnome-desktop-2.0 >= 2.23.3' but version of gnome-desktop-2.0 is
> 2.22.1
> 
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables EEL_CFLAGS
> and EEL_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> 
> 
> Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Apparently dependencies are not properly resolved in the whole Gnome build
> chain. How do I fix this locally?
> 
> Tobias W.