gconf package fails to build

[scott@…]

log file attached

--->  Computing dependencies for gconf
--->  Building gconf
Error: org.macports.build for port gconf returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port gconf for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_gconf/gconf/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Error rebuilding gconf
    while executing
"error "Error rebuilding $portname""
    (procedure "revupgrade_scanandrebuild" line 382)
    invoked from within
"revupgrade_scanandrebuild broken_port_counts $opts"
    (procedure "macports::revupgrade" line 5)
    invoked from within
"macports::revupgrade $opts"
    (procedure "action_revupgrade" line 2)
    invoked from within
"action_revupgrade $action $portlist $opts"
    (procedure "action_target" line 96)
    invoked from within
"$action_proc $action $portlist [array get global_options]"
    (procedure "process_cmd" line 93)
    invoked from within
"process_cmd $remaining_args"
    invoked from within
"if { [llength $remaining_args] > 0 } {

    # If there are remaining arguments, process those as a command
    set exit_status [process_cmd $remaining..."
    (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 4857)

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Your log is incomplete.

:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.archivefetch (gconf)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.fetch (gconf)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.checksum (gconf)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.extract (gconf)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.patch (gconf)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:main Skipping completed org.macports.configure (gconf)
:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.
:debug:build build phase started at Thu Jan 23 19:54:37 CST 2014

Please ​clean, try again, and attach the new main.log if you still see a failure.

[scott@…]

Updated to include whole log file

[scott@…]

Uninstalled gconf and all the ports dependent upon it. Reinstalled, it worked.

Is there a command that could accomplish that manual process better than a long series of "port dependents", "port uninstall", and "port install" to re-build all those packages?

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

To force gconf to rebuild (but not it's dependencies)

sudo port -n upgrade --force gconf

If you omit the -n it will rebuild all the dependencies too (probably more than you want).

To find all ports that depend on gconf (or rebuild them -- probably not required here)

sudo port echo depends:gconf
sudo port -n upgrade --force depends:gconf

[dbevans (David B. Evans)]

Not a problem with gconf per se.