How to clean a failed package to build?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 7, 2009, at 15:48, Kyunghoon Lee wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>
>> On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:40, Kyunghoon Lee wrote:
>>
>>> I was trying to build pang with a quartz option and it failed  
>>> because of the option.  I wanted to rebuild pango w/o the quartz  
>>> option, but port kept using the same variants option.  I tried to  
>>> clean, but it seems "port clean" works only for successfully  
>>> installed packages. [snip]
>>
>> What problem did you experience cleaning pango? [snip]
>
> After I failed to build pango, I tried again and get the following  
> message:
> Error: Requrested variants "+macosx" do not match original selection  
> "+macosx+quartz".
> Please use the same variants again, perform 'port clean pango' or  
> specify the force option (-f).
>
> Is it safe to use the '-f' option in this case to build pango w/o  
> the quartz option?

No, not really. What happens when you "sudo port clean pango" and then  
try "sudo port install pango" again?