glib2 will not build

[matt.cottrell@…]

glib2 will not build

[kirchmac:~] cottrell% sudo port selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.0.4 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.0.4 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated
[kirchmac:~] cottrell% sudo port upgrade outdated
--->  Computing dependencies for glib2
--->  Building glib2
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for glib2 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_glib2/glib2/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

[matt.cottrell@…]

error log

[matt.cottrell@…]

Solved my problem...

[kirchmac:~/Desktop] cottrell% sudo port -f activate  ncurses @5.9_1

glib2 now builds

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

When filing a ticket, please remember to Cc the maintainer of a port so they see the ticket.

This was not a clean build attempt; if you hadn't already figured out what the problem was, I would have asked you to clean and try again.

As you already discovered, the relevant error in the log was:

dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libncurses.5.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/msgfmt 

This means glib2 uses msgfmt (a part of gettext, on which the glib2 port declares a library dependency), and msgfmt uses the ncurses library (part of the ncurses port, on which the gettext port declares a library dependency). So ncurses should already have been active; perhaps you manually deactivated it before for some reason.