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Date:      Sun, 5 Oct 2014 08:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        madpilot@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: lang/guile* dependency conflict causing gnome port conflicts
Message-ID:  <201410051538.s95FcY38051391@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <54314AB3.10803@FreeBSD.org>

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On  5 Oct, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 10/03/14 03:23, Don Lewis wrote:
>> I ran into a problem when I upgraded my ports earlier today using pkg
>> and my local repository.
>> 
>> The problem is that the latest version of finance/gnucash depends on
>> lang/guile2, while games/gnome-games and deskutils/gnotime depend on
>> lang/guile, and the two guile ports conflict.  When I did the upgrade,
>> pkg detected the conflict and asked if it was ok to skip some of the
>> upgrades.  When I manually upgraded gnucash, pkg deleted gnome-games an
>> gnome2 and a few other ports.  When I reinstalled gnome2, which pulled
>> in gnome-games, pkg deleted gnucash.
>> 
>> I can probably live without gnome-games, but that means that I can't
>> have gnome2 installed either, which makes "pkg autoremove" less
>> convenient.  Unfortunately I can't live without gnotime and gnucash.
>> 
>> For now, I've reverted back to the previous version of gnucash, which
>> depends on lang/guile and avoids the conflict.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I just committed a fix to gnucash which allows it to compile with both
> guile and guile2, which can be chosen using an option.
> 
> Took a while since I also had to fix the slib ports on my way.
> 
> Sorry if my previous update to gnucash caused you problems. Unluckily
> it's configure script contained a bug which made me think it did not
> support guile 1.8.x anymore, which was not really the case.

Thanks!




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