On Dec 9, 2007, at 14:37, Joel Thibault (MacPorts) wrote:
On Dec 7, 2007 3:37 AM, Michael Thon wrote:
When I try to upgrade gtk2 I get the following error:
/bin/sh: line 1: gtkdoc-rebase: command not found
and I am unable to upgrade the package. This happens whether I use "sudo port upgrade gtk2" or "sudo port -f upgrade gtk2". "port outdated" says that I have 2.12.1_0 installed and 2.12.3_0 is the latest version. I don't know what gtkdoc-rebase is. is it part of the gtk-doc package? That package is not installed on my system.
It is part of gtk-doc 1.9. gtk-doc is listed as a dependency of gtk2 so I don't see how it could not be installed on your system. Are your ports up to date? Try selfupdate.
I also had this problem. I tracked it down via port -d to a bad test for gtkdoc-rebase, something like:
if `which gtkdoc-rebase` != "" then...
Since this returns "no gtkdoc-rebase in [my path]" rather than "", it then attempts to execute gtkdoc-rebase, and fails. It appeared to me to be an optional step, so I did a silly hack to make it look like it did something: I aliased /usr/bin/gtkdoc-rebase to /usr/bin/ true, and then the upgrade worked.
I don't think this makes for a very good solution :-) so someone who knows Macports much better than me should probably take a look at this.
It's fixed, please see: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13510