On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:06:21PM -0400, Carter Schonwald said: > hello all, > > I occasionally encounter errors of the following sort: > > sudo port install erlang > ---> Activating fontconfig @2.6.0_2+macosx > Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: > /opt/local/etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-autohint.conf already exists and does not > belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port fontconfig. > Error: The following dependencies failed to build: tk Xft2 fontconfig > xorg-libXScrnSaver xorg-scrnsaverproto > Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
Encountering a "already exists and does not belong to a registered port" should happen only extremely rarely, so if you are seeing it frequently you need to track down what else may be depositing files into /opt/local that isn't MacPorts. > > > when / how can I safely force macports to install over the dependency or how > can i determine if its safe to do so? You can force it with -f, read up at: <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#whentoforce> Bryan > thanks! > -Carter _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
