#40325: gettext failing to build ---------------------------+-------------------------- Reporter: coolfactor@… | Owner: ryandesign@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.2.0 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gettext | ---------------------------+-------------------------- Changes (by ryandesign@…): * owner: macports-tickets@… => ryandesign@… * port: => gettext Comment: Ok, you're trying to install gettext with the universal variant. MacPorts first ensures that dependencies are installed universal. Despite that check, dependency libiconv appears to not actually be universal: {{{ :info:build Undefined symbols for architecture i386: :info:build "_libiconv", referenced from: :info:build _xmlIconvWrapper in libxml_rpl.a(libxml_rpl_la- encoding.o) :info:build "_libiconv_close", referenced from: :info:build _xmlFindCharEncodingHandler in libxml_rpl.a (libxml_rpl_la-encoding.o) :info:build _xmlCharEncCloseFunc in libxml_rpl.a(libxml_rpl_la- encoding.o) :info:build "_libiconv_open", referenced from: :info:build _xmlFindCharEncodingHandler in libxml_rpl.a (libxml_rpl_la-encoding.o) :info:build ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386 }}} You told me by email that you then forcibly uninstalled something (what? libiconv?), cleaned gettext and reinstalled it, and it worked, except activation failed: {{{ :error:activate org.macports.activate for port gettext returned: Image error: /opt/local/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.bz2 already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port gettext. Use 'port -f activate gettext' to force the activation. }}} I suspect you installed some third-party software, which was itself built using MacPorts, and it overwrote some files in your MacPorts installation. See ProblemHotlist#xmlwf for some of the usual culprits and what to do about it. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40325#comment:1> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X

#40325: gettext failing to build ---------------------------+-------------------------- Reporter: coolfactor@… | Owner: ryandesign@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.2.0 Resolution: invalid | Keywords: Port: gettext | ---------------------------+-------------------------- Changes (by ryandesign@…): * status: new => closed * resolution: => invalid Comment: If it's not one of the third-party programs listed in the wiki page I mentioned, please let us know its name so we can add it to the Hall of Shame, or edit the wiki page and add it yourself. Please also ask the developers to package their software in a different prefix so this does not happen to other users. If you can figure out what all it installed, you can try to rebuild all the affected ports, but you may have to do them in a particular order (based on dependencies). It may be easier to uninstall all ports, remove /opt/local, reinstall MacPorts, then reinstall those ports you want. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40325#comment:3> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X