Issue with fontconfig and Snow Leopard

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 3, 2009, at 08:49, Doctor Who wrote:

> I'm trying to do an upgrade of my installed ports since upgrading to
> Snow Leopard and I'm getting the following error with fontconfig:
>
> $ sudo port upgrade outdated
> --->  Computing dependencies for fontconfig
> --->  Extracting fontconfig
> Error: You cannot install fontconfig for the architecture(s) x86_64
> because /opt/local/lib/libexpat.dylib does not contain the  
> architecture x86_64.
> Error: Target org.macports.extract returned: incompatible
> architectures in dependencies
> Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
>
> This is MacPorts 1.8.1
>
> What is the preferred method to fix this?

When upgrading from one major version of Mac OS X to another (e.g.  
from Leopard to Snow Leopard), you need to uninstall and reinstall all  
ports. See the Migration page:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration