Migration conflicting ports

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 23 December 2015 at 16:12, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
> Before I upgraded to OS 10.11 I had the gmsh and octave ports installed.  Both depended on fltk.  I am now reinstalling my ports per the migration instructions.  The problem is that octave now depends on fltk-devel while gmsh depends on fltk and these conflict with each other.
> The strange part is that the octave port is the same rev that I had installed before the migration (@3.8.2_14).  I don’t know when there might have been a change, or what it was.
> Is there any way to have both gmsh and octave installed?  I am not sure if I should even file a ticket as it seems that there is not a bug in either port, just a conflict between them.

I'm not maintainer of the Octave port, but the Portfile contains the
following comment & code:

http://trac.macports.org/changeset/140782/

    # for now on OSX 10.11, just use fltk-devel since fltk does not
    # build; remove this condition with the next fltk release (noted
    # in that Portfile too).

    if {${os.major} == 15} {
        depends_lib-append port:fltk-devel
    } else {
        depends_lib-append path:lib/libfltk.dylib:fltk

(You can try to run "sudo port install fltk" just to confirm that it's
indeed broken.)

You should be able to work around the problem by installing fltk-devel
first, then gmsh and octave (gmsh is happy with either fltk or
fltk-devel, but it would install fltk by default if no binary is
already there).

But you could just as well file a ticket (put michaelld in CC) to
apply the same kind of fix to gmsh as the one in octave.

Mojca