On May 4, 2007, at 11:15 PM, Mervyn wrote:
Spoke too soon. I hit a brick wall.
configure: error:
*** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the
*** GNU gettext library. (
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
Warning: the following items did not execute (for glib2):
com.apple.activate com.apple.configure com.apple.build com.apple.destroot com.apple.install
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: glib2 gtk2 atk libpng zlib pango Xft2 fontconfig freetype xrender render cairo tiff jpeg libpcap openssl
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
What does the above mean?
Not sure how you got this far but it does happen. My course would be to update my ports (port sync/port selfupdate).
Some questions. Does your path have the /opt hierarchy in it?
% echo $PATH
/opt/local/libexec:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
What ports do you have installed?
% port installed
The following ports are currently installed:
Xft2 @2.1.7_0 (active)
aalib @1.4rc5_2 (active)
aspell @0.60.5_0 (active)
at-spi @
1.18.1_0 (active)
atk @1.18.0_0 (active)
audiofile @0.2.6_0 (active)
autoconf @2.61_0 (active)
automake @1.10_0 (active)
avahi @0.6.16_1 (active)
bison @
2.3_0 (active)
bug-buddy @2.18.0_0 (active)
bzip2 @1.0.4_1 (active)
[....]
Do you have gettext in there? Either, it might be worth installing it with -f (port -f install gettext). It should go quickly, since it has all of two dependencies, I think.
If that works, try your other command again and let us know how you get on.
--
Paul Beard
Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?