Fontconfig broken

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Mon May 4 14:03:43 PDT 2009


On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:44:48PM -0700, Adam Dershowitz said:
> I seem to have an odd problem of a port that is "sort of installed and  
> sort of not".
> I see that gd2 is outdated, so I did a port sync and port upgrade  
> outdated.
>
> At which point I got this:
> Error: No port fontconfig found.
> Error: Dependency 'fontconfig' not found.
> Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
>
> If I try to look for the port I get this:
> >port info fontconfig
> Error: Port fontconfig not found

You probably sync'd when portindex failed to get fontconfig due to some
X11-based changes; try a sync again as fontconfig was fixed in r50581 and
portindex was successful in r50583.

Bryan


>
>
> But if I do this:
> >port installed fontconfig
> The following ports are currently installed:
>   fontconfig @2.6.0_1+macosx
>   fontconfig @2.6.0_2+macosx (active)
>
> I see that I actually have the port installed and active.
> So it seems that it is there, but macports can not find it.  Something is 
> clearly broken.
>
> Any idea what, or what I can do about it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Adam


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