Problem with building poppler

[Christopher Jones]

Yes, known. See the last ticket at

https://ports.macports.org/port/poppler/tickets <https://ports.macports.org/port/poppler/tickets>

> On 25 Oct 2020, at 9:44 pm, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> Sierra 10.12.6 (won't go any further), MacPorts 2.6.3 on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro.
> 
> (Looks like "poppler" is part of "xpdf", my favourite PDF viewer.)
> 
> Whenever I do my regular "port upgrade outdated" I keep seeing the following, and it's starting to annoy me:
> 
>    --->  Configuring poppler
>    Error: poppler cannot be built while another version of poppler is active.
>    Error: Please forcibly deactivate the existing copy of poppler, e.g. by running:
>    Error:
>    Error:     sudo port -f deactivate poppler
>    Error:
>    Error: Then try again.
>    Error: Failed to configure poppler: poppler is active
> 
> The "fix" is obvious of course, but before I file a bug report is this a known problem?  Error log available upon request.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> (And yes, I know that I have a number of replies to acknowledge, but I've been busy/sick lately; comes from being in my late 60s.)
> 
> -- Dave

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