ragel and colm conflict on /opt/local/lib/libfsm.a

[essandess (Steve Smith)]

ragel rev-upgrade and/or install:

Error: Failed to activate colm: Image error: /opt/local/lib/libfsm.a is being used by the active ragel port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate colm' to force the activation.

This appears to be an upstream issue.

[essandess (Steve Smith)]

Also, adding this obvious fix to the ragel Portfile causes a build failure because of a version mismatch:

:info:configure configure: error: check colm: expected version 0.13.0.7, but 0.1
4.7 is installed

post-destroot {                                                                 
    # avoid conflict with colm                                                  
    if {[file exists ${prefix}/lib/libfsm.a]} {                                 
        delete ${destroot}${prefix}/lib/libfsm.a                                
    }                                                                           
}                                                                               

Also, the latest version is 7.0.4. Updating to that version runs into this build error:

:info:build make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/opt/local/lib/libfsm.la', needed by `ragel'.  Stop.

[essandess (Steve Smith)]

Related upstream issue: ​https://github.com/adrian-thurston/ragel/issues/70

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Looks like this occurred after Herby's update:

​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/78349a3b60611d4f25d0cd28f0e0447ca70c6f4c

[essandess (Steve Smith)]

It looks to me that colm is now on a devel release, and that we should consider reverting back. Right now, there’s no viable fix for ragel installs and installs for its dependencies.

[Christopher Nielsen <mascguy@…>]

In 72b42af49259f0ae0143462a8c8731dc0834ee7c/macports-ports (master):

colm: revert update to 0.14.7

• Causes seemlingly unresolvable conflict with dependent ragel

Fixes: #63732

[barracuda156]

Fixed properly (hopefully) in: ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/15762