GnuCash packaging

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Jan 4 04:26:38 PST 2009


Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Charles Day wrote:
> 
>> Well I tried the following workaround for ticket 10881, but macports
>> started trying to include the wrong dependencies. For example, it
>> tried to include dependencies based on X11 when I specified gnucash
>> +no_x11 (see gnome-desktop at the end as an example).
>>
>> In addition, it seems that some dependencies are required to be built
>> into their own destroots in advance (see the error message for
>> aqbanking below).
>>
>> So I'm not sure how I should try again to make it work.
> 
> Disable autoclean in macports.conf, uninstall and clean everything, and
> start over ?
> 
> The "force destroot" workaround requires that you do it for every single
> port,
> including all dependencies and making sure all needed variants are
> included...
> 
> "Given that this has been around for 2 years, is this considered a bug
> or a feature?"

Heh, there are bugs that have been around longer... it just appears that
relatively few people care about building binaries.

- Josh


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