pidgin: /opt/local/lib/libpng12.la: No such file or directory

[sgaviria@…]

I updated macport (selfupdate) in order to grab higher version of pidgin, however building is broken:

$ sudo port install pidgin
....
--->  Computing dependencies for pidgin
--->  Building pidgin
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Here's what I see in the logs:

:info:build Making all in gestures
:info:build   CCLD   gestures.la
:info:build grep: /opt/local/lib/libpng12.la: No such file or directory
:info:build sed: /opt/local/lib/libpng12.la: No such file or directory
:info:build libtool: link: `/opt/local/lib/libpng12.la' is not a valid libtool archive
:info:build make[4]: *** [gestures.la] Error 1
:info:build make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
:info:build make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
:info:build make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
:info:build make: *** [all] Error 2
:info:build shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_net_pidgin/work/pidgin-2.7.9" && /usr/bin/make -j2 all " returned error 2
:error:build Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
:debug:build Backtrace: shell command failed (see log for details)
    while executing
"command_exec build"
    (procedure "portbuild::build_main" line 8)
    invoked from within
"$procedure $targetname"

Looks related to libpng version:

$ ls /opt/local/lib/libpng
libpng.a           libpng.dylib       libpng.la          libpng14.14.dylib  libpng14.a         
libpng14.dylib     libpng14.la 

[sgaviria@…]

Forgot to mention I'm on 10.6.6

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Many ports need to be rebuilt following the upgrade to libpng 1.4. Please use "port outdated" to see what they are, and try updating them. If you run into errors, skip those ports and come back to them later. Because libpng is such a ubiquitous library, not all ports that use it are actually declaring dependencies on it, which can cause MacPorts to not necessarily upgrade everything in the correct order on its own.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Closing; there's nothing that can be done here without knowing which port was actually referencing libpng12 (and it's probably fixed by now anyway).