thanks, might it be from a while ago having initially used fink / building stuff on my own / also having installed texlive 08 separately? -Carter
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Bryan Blackburn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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