On Snow Leopard, updating at-spi2-atk to @2.26.0_0+universal failed unless at-spi2-core updated first

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2017, at 13:58, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> 
>> Hardware Version: Mac mini (Mid 2007)
>> Model Identifier: Macmini2,1
>> Mac OS X 10.6.8 10K549 (Snow Leopard)
>> Xcode 3.2.6 DevToolsSupport-1806.0
>> MacPorts Version: 2.4.1
>> 
>> The error in the log file seems to say as much:
>> 
>> :info:configure checking for atk >= 2.25.2... no
>> :info:configure configure: error: Package requirements (atk >= 2.25.2) were not met:
>> :info:configure Requested 'atk >= 2.25.2' but version of Atk is 2.24.0
>> :info:configure Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>> :info:configure installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>> :info:configure Alternatively, you may set the environment variables ATK_CFLAGS
>> :info:configure and ATK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>> :info:configure See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>> 
>> yet that was not done in the right order automatically.  Why not?  Is it new that at-spi2-stk configure checks the version of the prerequisite atk component(s)?
>> 
>> I didn't use the -n option; the exact command I used was
>> port upgrade outdated and not ( avahi or cppunit or libiodbc or nmap or qca or cdrtools or smake )
> 
> Sounds like at-spi2-atk 2.26.0 requires atk 2.26.0. MacPorts should have automatically upgraded atk to 2.26.0 before attempting to build at-spi2-atk. If it didn't, you can try updating atk first.

As for the why, it's impossible to know from the information we have. 
The full log might give more insight; it should show each dependency 
being upgraded, with installed versions being compared against the 
current ones.

- Josh