On Jan 5, 2008, at 18:58, skip@pobox.com wrote:
I'm still plugging away at getting glade3 installed. My latest problem port is py25-wxpython. I get a compile error (syntax error of some sort - unexpected ; or something). I decided to try simply building and installing it from source. Worked fine. Now, is there some way to tell the port command to ignore the dependency of glade3 on py25-wxpython so I can continue with my fumbling attempts at installing it?
Not really. MacPorts isn't designed to be used in that way. MacPorts is designed to install "all" its software and dependencies itself. (There are exceptions, but py25-wxpython is not one of them.) If you can install it from source, but not install the port, then it should be relatively easy to fix the port. You should search the issue tracker and if there is not a bug you should file one. Then you could work with the maintainers of the port to see if you can help them resolve the problem.