mayavi conundrum

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 8, 2010, at 13:26, Victor Eijkhout wrote:

> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for vtk5
> --->  Extracting vtk5
> --->  Configuring vtk5
> --->  Building vtk5
> --->  Staging vtk5 into destroot
> --->  Installing vtk5 @5.2.1_2+tcltk+x11
> --->  Activating vtk5 @5.2.1_2+tcltk+x11
> --->  Cleaning vtk5
> --->  Fetching py26-mayavi
> Error: vtk must be installed with the +carbon variant
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: vtk must be installed with the +carbon variant
> Log for py26-mayavi is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_python_py26-mayavi/main.log
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
> [albook:~] %% sudo port install vtk5 @5.2.1_2+tcltk+x11+carbon
> Password:
> Error: vtk5: Variant x11 conflicts with carbon
> Error: Unable to open port: Error evaluating variants
> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
> [albook:~] %% 

It looks like py26-mayavi requires vtk5 be installed with the carbon variant, and that you cannot install vtk5 with the carbon variant if you are also requesting the x11 variant. So don't request the x11 variant.