On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Adam Dershowitz <de...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > I have gdb installed, and I just tried to upgrade it from 7.3.1 to 7.5.0. > But I got an error that says: > > Error: cctools-headers must be deactivated before upgrade. > Error: org.macports.configure for port gdb returned: Please run `sudo port > deactivate cctools-headers` and try again. > > It turns out that cctools-headers is a dependent of cctools which is in > turn a dependent on gcc43,gcc44 and gcc45. > > So, are gcc43,gcc44 and gcc45 incompatible with gdb? That seems like an > odd and inconvenient conflict.
I think cctools-headers just causes a compile-time problem with gdb [1][2], so you should be able to force-deactivate cctools-headers before installing gdb and re-activate it afterwards. [1] https://trac.macports.org/changeset/98404 [2] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36472 vq _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users