Lasting "Building webkit-gtk"

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Feb 7 23:11:00 PST 2013


On Feb 8, 2013, at 00:33, Eneko Gotzon Ares wrote:

> 2.1 GHz PowerPC G5
> Mac OS X.5.8 (Leopard)
> MacPorts v2.1.3
> 
> Trying to install The GIMP port its "Building webkit-gtk" process lasts already > 5:00' hours. What must I do?
> ·To let the process finish.

Yes; wait. WebKit is an enormous piece of software and it will take some time to build. If it hasn't finished after 24 hours let us know. I think it finished in less time than that on my 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4.


> 6 weeks ago I Opened the bug Ticket "#37418 webkit-gtk: error: too many initializers for 'malloc_introspection_t'".
> 2 weeks ago it was classified as "closed and fixed."

Yes; it was fixed.


> After the fix, I have tried to install the gimp port twice, unsuccessfully.
> The first failed attempt was under MacPorts v2.1.2.
> After this failure, I cleaned ports executing these commands:
> ·$ sudo port clean all
> ·$ sudo port clean gimp
> ·$ sudo port clean --all gimp
> ·$ sudo port clean --all all
> ·$ sudo port -f clean --all all
> Thereafter, I tried this second installation attempt but it also seems to be unsuccessful.

Provide a main.log file of the port that failed to build.



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