On 11/26/07, Michael E. Shamgochian <chagrinson@gmail.com> wrote:
Strange! This is pretty much a clean install of MacPorts - I've tried
reinstalling MacPorts to see if that would solve the problem. Right
now, I'm just getting this from port installed:

The following ports are currently installed:
   par2 @0.4_1+darwin_9 (active)
   unrar @3.7.8_0 (active)

(I installed those two with no trouble.)

odd. Not sure how you picked out two ports that don't depend on gettext, expat, or libiconv ;-) 

to go back to the top of this thread, gimp2 has library dependencies on:
        aalib
        curl
        libart_lgpl
        libexif
        libgnomeui
        libgtkhtml
        libmng
        librsvg
        libwmf
        p5-xml-parser
        poppler
        py25-gtk

 
and those all have dependencies on other things. So it should take some time to install. 

Why you were seeing all those messages eludes me. Want to try installing gimp2 again? 

try: 

port -d install gimp2 | tee /tmp/logfile.txt so you get the entrails to peruse later. 

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