is there a list of known broken ports?

[Nehemiah Dacres]

shoot! forgot to mention,

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Nehemiah Dacres <vivacarlie at gmail.com>wrote:

> if there isn't, there could be one differentiated from other tickets
> because it doesn't require intimate knowledge of macports or the port in
> question,  any maintainers could contribute. (frankly sometimes it IS a
> closebrace kind of thing)
>
>
> for example I just got,
>
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
>> /opt/local/lib/libpcre.0.0.1.dylib already exists and does not belong to a
>> registered port.  Unable to activate port pcre.
>
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: pcre scons python26 db46
>> gdbm sqlite3 tk Xft2 xorg-libXScrnSaver xorg-libXext xorg-libX11
>> xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libXau xorg-xproto
>> xorg-libXdmcp xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto
>> xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-scrnsaverproto
>
>  Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
>

>
> I was trying to build mongodb, I know there's no maintainer but  ... what
> does it need with python or xorg libs? Spidermonkey is already installed so
> it doesn't need that and (as you can see) so was PCRE.
>
>

I am on an iMac g5 (pre iSite) running 10.5.8 macports version 1.8.1
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