Should I uninstall? If not, how to fix major dependency issues?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 4, 2013, at 19:44, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Robin Wilson <robin at rtwilson.com> wrote:
>> It seems that zlib is causing problems again - but I have completely uninstalled and re-installed macports, so I don't understand why these errors are occurring.
>> 
> Uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't remove any existing build directories

It would if all of the uninstallation instructions were followed, including the portion following the paragraph which begins "To remove all remaining traces of MacPorts".


> and that's what you are tripping over.  You might want to "sudo port clean all" to make sure there's no garbage still lying around, as there is in the case of zlib.  (This will take a while.)

Probably a good idea at this point.