failure upgrading fontforge 20080927_0 < 20090622_0

[IOOI-SqAR]

When trying to do an sudo port -v upgrade outdated I got a failure during upgrading fontforge. See attached transcript

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transcript of the upgrade session

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here quick summary:

ld: Undefined symbols:
_utf8_strchr
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/libtool: internal link edit command failed
make[1]: *** [../libgdraw.la] Error 1
make: *** [libgdraw] Error 2

Warning: the following items did not execute (for fontforge): org.macports.destroot org.macports.build
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Lars-Sonchocky-Helldorfs-Computer:~ lars$ port version
Version: 1.8.1
Lars-Sonchocky-Helldorfs-Computer:~ lars$ uname -a
Darwin Lars-Sonchocky-Helldorfs-Computer.local 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

[sebastic@…]

Cc Me!

[IOOI-SqAR]

Happened again to me today but this time with the following undefined symbols:

:info:build ld: Undefined symbols:
:info:build _AllAscii
:info:build _StripToASCII

luckily there's a workaround for this problem which I found here: ​http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2009-April/014733.html

deactivate it before upgrading:

sudo port deactivate fontforge
sudo port clean fontforge
sudo port install fontforge

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

fontforge is currently at version 20120731 in Macports.