Migration conflicting ports
Michael Dickens
michaelld at macports.org
Sat Dec 26 10:03:42 PST 2015
Just built & works for me too (actual testing inside octave), so I
committed the fix in r143912. Thanks for pointing out that issue! - MLD
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, at 06:55 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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