Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 11:55 PM -0800 wrote:
I have now determined that there is exactly one port that depends on gd: cvsgraph. The port is at version 1.5.0. The changelog for version 1.5.2 includes "Fix configure script to detect gd-2 problems" so perhaps the current version of cvsgraph, 1.6.1, will work properly with gd2. cvsgraph has no maintainer, and I don't use CVS, so perhaps someone else could take a look at whether cvsgraph can be updated to 1.6.1 and made to use gd2 instead of gd. Then we can delete the gd port.
You know what? I just did "sudo port install cvsgraph" and it happily downloaded and installed cvsgraph 1.5.0, without downloading or installing gd, even though cvsgraph allegedly has library dependencies on it. So I don't know what to make of that.
I *think* the old style dependency lib:libgd:gd would be satisfied by either gd 1.x or 2.x. Perhaps the configure script does not try to detect it but leaves it to the user to make sure it is installed. Mark