digikam: invalid port depspec 'path:lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc:cairo'

[bernard.meunier@…]

MacOS 10.9.2 Xcode 5.1.1 Digikam : Digital photo management program to import, organize, enhance, search and export your digital images. I try to install digikam by :

sudo port install -v digikam +debug

First I receive that :

--->  Computing dependencies for digikam

But very quickly I receive these informations :

Error: active_variants: 
Error: invalid port depspec 'path:lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc:cairo'
Error:   expecting either: port or (bin:lib:path):foo:port

What's mean ? What can I do ?

Thank a lot for any help.

Salutations

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

That's strange. The depspec "path:lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc:cairo" is of the form "(bin:lib:path):foo:port" so I don't know what it's complaining about. I'm also not certain which port (digikam, or one of its miriad dependencies) is issuing this complaint. The formulation "require_active_variants path:lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc:cairo" is used in many ports and hasn't been a problem before.

Can you show the list of ports that are installed, by running "port -v installed"?

[bernard.meunier@…]

Would you find what you request :

port -v installed

apple-gcc42 @5666.3_13 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' autoconf @2.69_2 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='noarch' automake @1.14.1_2 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='noarch' bzip2 @1.0.6_0 platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' cctools @845_1+llvm33 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' cctools-headers @845_0 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='noarch' expat @2.1.0_0 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' gcc_select @0.1_8 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='noarch' gdbm @1.11_0 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' gettext @0.18.3.2_0 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' ld64 @136_2+llvm33 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' libffi @3.0.13_0 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' libiconv @1.14_0 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' llvm-3.3 @3.3_1 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' llvm_select @0.2_0 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='noarch' m4 @1.4.16_0 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' ncurses @5.9_2 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64' perl5 @5.12.4_0+perl5_16 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='noarch' perl5.16 @5.16.3_0 (active) platform='darwin 13' archs='x86_64'

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, interesting, so neither cairo (the port being referenced in the allegedly problematic require_active_variants invocation) nor pango (one of digikam's indirect dependencies and one of the ports that uses the allegedly problematic require_active_variants invocation) got installed yet.

What happens if you try to install pango explicitly?

sudo port install pango

If that works, try again to install digikam.

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

I didn't see this when installing the port -debug on the same kind of a system.

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

Thanks to René's patch digikam was update to 4.8.0 in r133889.