"port install meld" does not yield working executable

[joerg van den hoff]

On 16.03.21 19:48, Ruben Di Battista wrote:
> Are you up to date with the ports?
> 
> - sudo port selfupdate
> - sudo port upgrade outdated

yes (as of this afternoon: I was waiting for a fix to the pulseaudio port which happened today (my 
thanks to the maintainer!), so I did the above a couple of hours ago. and afterwards the
`port install meld' (which I had uninstalled previously during the pulseaudio/webkit-gtk hickup)

> 
> 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 larger `port upgrade outdated'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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