> On Apr 25, 2017, at 04:57, Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 25 April 2017 at 11:45, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just experienced a failure to build gdbm during "port upgrade outdated". >> >> The reason: configure checks for >> for ac_prog in gawk mawk nawk awk >> and then calls "gawk" which is temporarily broken due to readline >> which has been upgraded some seconds before (while gawk wasn't yet). >> But gawk is not listed as build dependency, so MacPorts didn't know >> that gawk should be updated first. >> >> What's the best solution in such cases? >> >> Adding: >> configure.env-append AWK=/usr/bin/awk >> >> Or add a build dependency on gawk?
So far we've decided to do neither. > The same problem when updating clisp. At which point I just "gave up" > and update gawk before running "port upgrade outdated" again. This is what we've recommended so far.
