cairo fetch failure

[mfourdraine@…]

When trying to install Dia I encounter an error when it tries to grab cairo 1.6.4 . I see that cairo has been upgraded to 1.7.4 and the old version may have been moved from the repository. I am not familiar enough with the ports system to make any required changed to my own system manually to allow the upgrade to continue.

Here is the portion of the install dialog where it chokes.

sudo ./port install dia
Password:
--->  Fetching cairo
--->  Attempting to fetch cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz from http://cairographics.org/releases/
--->  Attempting to fetch cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/cairo
--->  Attempting to fetch cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
--->  Attempting to fetch cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/cairo
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2 cairo jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros shared-mime-info libxml2 autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5.8 m4 libtool automake p5-xml-parser tiff libart_lgpl libxslt popt
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[blb@…]

Note that the current stable release for cairo is still 1.6.4, 1.7.4 is the in-development version (which is in MacPorts as cairo-devel). Not sure why you were unable to download it, as I see the file just fine here. Maybe the server was having issues when you tried, so you might either try again or have a look at the ​fetch failures problem entry to get port to download from the MacPorts mirror.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Agreed. It worked fine for me just now.

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