Circular dependency in python26 -- cannot install

[aaronbrashears@…]

sudo port install python26
--->  Computing dependencies for python26Error: Internal error: port lookup failed: too many nested evaluations (infinite loop?)
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

Using -> as an indication of dependency, it turns out:

python26 -> tk -> Xft2 -> xrender -> xorg-libX11 -> xorg-libxcb -> xorg-xcb-proto -> python26

So there is a circular dependency making everything in the chain and anything that depends on something in that chain uninstallable. In my case, that is git-core.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

PLEASE search first! Dupe of #26387.

[aaronbrashears@…]

Thanks for noticing, closing, and linking.

FWIW, I did do a search through google both globally and limited to this site and did not turn up anything. Amusingly if I used the macports search engine, it does turn up the other reports. Just trying to be helpful here jmr.