How to clean up failed build with lots of dependencies?

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Thanks Josh. port reclaim did the trick.

I'm still preparing a ticket for gtk3 build fail on Mojave, but thought I should double check here to make sure this is a gtk3 ticket and not a NetSurf ticket.

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NetSurf build appears to have been successful on OS X 10.8.5 w/ Xcode 5.1.1 on Macmini5,2. But when I try to invoke netsurf-gtk3, I get an error:

netsurf-gtk3:59718): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:26:10.346: cannot open display:

NetSurf documentation is unrevealing. Expects there to be an application to double-click, and I also expected there to be app bundle in /Applications/MacPorts/.  gtk3 documentation may as well be in Sanskrit for all the good it's doing me. I don't want to build an interface, I just want to run a thing.


> On Dec 15, 2022, at 09:27, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
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>> Does MacPorts have a way to uninstall the dependencies it installed in attempting to build NetSurf (or any complex port that fails to build) without uninstalling the dependencies that were already installed?
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>> Will "port reclaim" catch these?
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> Yes, port reclaim will clean up such ports for you. You can also use an expression like 'leaves and rdepof:NetSurf' to do it manually; I would pass it to 'port echo' first to check that it doesn't match anything you want to keep, and then use it with clean and uninstall.
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