Migration conflicting ports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 24, 2015, at 6:01 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> 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.

fltk @1.3.3 installs fine for me on El Capitan. Maybe octave's El Capitan-specific dependency on fltk-devel should be reverted.