Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update

[Stan Sanderson]

> On Jan 17, 2014, at 6:30 PM, Davide Liessi <address@hidden> wrote
> 2014/1/17 Stan Sanderson <address@hidden>:
>> The last “port self update” and “upgrade outdated” appear to have broken 
>> Frescobaldi’s Music View on both my OS 10.6 and 10.9 machines. There is only 
>> a gray screen displayed in the Music View window.
> 
> this problem is already known.
> 
> A couple of days ago the Portfile for Poppler has been reorganized
> (see https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38350).
> The (long awaited) change separated Poppler-Qt4 from the rest of Poppler.
> Now other ports that depend on Poppler-Qt4 can specify a dependency on
> poppler-qt4-mac that is automatically resolved and installed by
> MacPorts, instead of requiring the user to manually install poppler
> with variants +qt4 +quartz (MacPorts cannot currently enforce
> non-default variants on dependencies).
> This means e.g. that in order to install Frescobaldi the command "sudo
> port install poppler +qt4 +quartz" is not necessary anymore.
> 
> The problem is that due to an oversight the port poppler-qt4-mac
> doesn't work correctly (see comments starting from 12 in the same
> page).
> There is already a patch that solves the problem, and I hope that it
> will be committed to MacPorts' repository in a couple of days at most.
> 
>> The only thing I noticed is that port installed poppler returns
>>    poppler @0.24.4_1+qt4+quartz
>>    poppler @0.24.5_0 (active)
> 
> This is correct, because Poppler-Qt4 is now a separate port and the
> variants +qt4 and +quartz have been removed.
> 
> If you didn't uninstall poppler @0.24.4_1+qt4+quartz you can
> temporarily work around the problem entering in the Terminal
> sudo port -f deactivate poppler @0.24.5_0 poppler-qt4-mac
> sudo port activate poppler @0.24.4_1+qt4+quartz

Davide,

Once again you have clearly stated the problem and provided a clear answer. 
Many thanks!

Stan