"port install meld" does not yield working executable

[Ruben Di Battista]

Are you up to date with the ports?

- sudo port selfupdate
- sudo port upgrade outdated

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 7:47 PM joerg van den hoff <veedeehjay at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 16.03.21 19:41, Ruben Di Battista wrote:
> > If you run `port notes dbus` it should tell you how to enable the service
> > in launchd if I'm not mistaken.
>
> thanks. the notes say
>
> "sudo port load dbus" should start the service(s).
>
> I have done that right now but it did not solve the issue with `meld'...
> :(. the error message is
> now reduced to
>
> "** (meld:70489): WARNING **: 19:46:07.080: Failed to load shared library
> './gtksourceview/libgtksourceview-4.0.dylib' referenced by the typelib:
> dlopen(./gtksourceview/libgtksourceview-4.0.dylib, 9): image not found
> Meld requires GtkSourceView 4.0 or higher.
> "
>
> so, indeed, the dbus related complaint went away (but unfortunately w/o
> solving the issue).
>
> >
> > I haven't the Mac available right now, otherwise I'll give you the
> command
> > that I don't remember by heat
> >
> > (Please keep the discussion in the list replying to all...😉)
>
> right, sorry. my fault...
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2021, 19:31 joerg van den hoff, <veedeehjay at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 16.03.21 19:24, Ruben Di Battista wrote:
> >>> Did you enable dbus as per its notes?
> >>
> >> that was fast... :). no, I did not. didn't see any notes either. you
> mean
> >> "notes of dbus" rather
> >> than "meld" I presume? if dbus installed/updated recently during some
> >> larger `port upgrade outdated'
> >> run, I must have overlooked those notes.
> >>
> >> how can I find those? or what do I need to do?
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021, 19:23 joerg van den hoff, <veedeehjay at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> after "port install meld", on trying to start the program I get on the
> >>>> command line from which it is
> >>>> started the message
> >>>>
> >>>> "
> >>>> dbus[70231]: Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did
> >> not
> >>>> provide a socket path,
> >>>> verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
> >>>>
> >>>> ** (meld:70231): WARNING **: 18:11:03.149: Failed to load shared
> library
> >>>> './gtksourceview/libgtksourceview-4.0.dylib' referenced by the
> typelib:
> >>>> dlopen(./gtksourceview/libgtksourceview-4.0.dylib, 9): image not found
> >>>> Meld requires GtkSourceView 4.0 or higher.
> >>>> "
> >>>>
> >>>> and a small pop up window from the `meld' GUI telling "Meld requires
> >>>> GtkSourceView 4.0 or higher."
> >>>>
> >>>> `port installed' lists
> >>>>
> >>>>      gtksourceview4 @4.8.0_0+x11 (active)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't understand the
> >>>>
> >>>> dbus[70231]: Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did
> >> not
> >>>> provide a socket path,
> >>>> verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
> >>>>
> >>>> hint nor what I can do about it.
> >>>>
> >>>> seen with 10.15.7 and current MacPorts.
> >>>>
> >>>> any ideas?
> >>>>
> >>>> thx/joerg
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>


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