On Jan 21, 2008, at 14:53, John Gorst wrote:

On 21 Jan 2008, at 19:19, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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On Jan 20, 2008, at 11:28, John Gorst wrote:

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I am getting the following error messages after a lengthy build process.....

john-gorsts-macbook-pro-15:~ john$ sudo port install xsane Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gettext ncurses ncursesw gawk gimp2 libexif libgnomeui gnome-keyring glib2 gtk2 atk gtk-doc scrollkeeper pango libgcrypt libgpg-error libbonoboui dbus xmlto getopt dbus-glib gconf orbit2 libidl gnome- vfs gnome-mime-data neon libbonobo popt libglade2 libgnome libgnomecanvas gail libgtkhtml libmng autoconf help2man p5-locale- gettext automake librsvg libcroco libgsf poppler py25-gtk py25- cairo py25-numeric python25 py25-gobject Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Here is the debug log entry for one of the missing dependancies.

DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port gnome- keyring. DEBUG: Requested variant i386 is not provided by port gnome-keyring. DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port gnome- keyring.

Many thanks for any help!

You haven't shown us the relevant information. Which of the dependencies failed to build, and why? I suppose maybe it was gnome-keyring, but the DEBUG messages you showed us from gnome- keyring are normal status messages, not errors. (Not all ports provide the variants "darwin", "i386", "macosx", and so forth, but if those variants exist, MacPorts uses them. MacPorts is just telling you that gnome-keyring doesn't have these variants. It's not a problem.)

Show us the actual error message you get when installing xsane. Or is it one of the existing tickets we have for gnome-keyring?

http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/query? status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&summary=%7Egnome- keyring&order=priority

Thanks for your reply.

The actual message when I type 'sudo port install xsane' is shown above.

I just included a few lines of 'sudo port -d install xsane' as it was so long and the list wouldnt post it!!

Here are another few lines I have thought to be suspicious!

DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/ rsync.macports.org/release/ports/devel/gettext DEBUG: Searching for dependency: gettext DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: gettext

I think this is also normal output, saying that gettext is not installed, so it's going to install gettext. And first it's going to install any dependencies of gettext.

I will email you my -debug log off list.

Thank you for your help

I can see why you're confused. I was too! There's nothing but DEBUG output. I think that you're experiencing a circular dependency issue: gettext depends on ncurses, ncurses depends on ncursesw, ncursesw depends on gawk (on Leopard only), and gawk depends on gettext. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13898 I resolved this problem a week ago by making ncursesw no longer depend on gawk, which means your ports tree is out of date. So you should update your ports: sudo port selfupdate Then check which ports are outdated; ncursesw should show up in the list: port outdated Then you should rebuild ncursesw so it picks up my fix from last week and no longer depends on gawk: sudo port upgrade ncursesw You should also upgrade anything else shown by "port outdated". Then you'll hopefully be able to install xsane: sudo port install xsane