On Apr 5, 2013, at 8:36 PM, Jean-François Caron <[email protected]> wrote:

> So this instance has been resolved, but I am asking myself why I needed to do 
> all these deactivations by hand?  Clearly macports knew what needed to be 
> done.  I am also left needing to reactivate the proper ports afterwards.  Is 
> there a reason it is like this, or is it a problem with the ports?

For some reason, glib2 has a build-time conflict with libelf. MacPorts base 
currently does not have the ability to automatically deactivate and reactivate 
ports that conflict with builds; in fact, base doesn't even know what a 
build-time conflict is. The existing build conflict functionality is provided 
by a portgroup.

If you run into build conflict errors in the future, you can use "port -f 
deactivate" to force-deactivate the offending port, over MacPorts' objections. 
This is fine as long as you reactivate the port afterwards.

vq
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