Weird uninstall error

[Richard Cobbe]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:45:59AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> > On Nov 7, 2016, at 7:07 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> >
> > (Apologies for possible duplicate)
> >
> > Doing my regular "port -u uninstall", I never saw this one before:
> >
> >    --->  Cleaning p5.22-datetime
> >    --->  Unable to uninstall p5.22-specio @0.280.0_0, the following ports depend on it:
> >    --->     p5.22-datetime-locale @1.80.0_0
> >    --->     p5.22-datetime-timezone @2.50.0_0
> >    Error: org.macports.uninstall for port p5.22-specio returned: Please uninstall the ports that depend on p5.22-specio first.
>
> And does first uninstalling the ports that depend on p5.22-specio work?

What should one do if one would be unable to reinstall the dependent ports?

I'm running into this with p5.22-perl-ldap, and the 'final' dependent, if
you will, is lbdb +ldap -- which I can't rebuild, due to the issue at
<https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50524>.

Richard