gnutls @3.5.14: ld: library not found for -lsnowleopardfixes

[BrentSqAR]

whilst configuring the c-compiler: library not found for -lsnowleopardfixes

configure:5377: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:5399: /opt/local/bin/clang-mp-3.7 -pipe -Os -arch x86_64 -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -lsnowleopardfixes -arch x86_64 conftest.c  >&5
ld: library not found for -lsnowleopardfixes
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

[kencu (Ken)]

weird. No idea how this would occur. Do you have it installed?

port -v installed snowleopardfixes

if not, try this

sudo port -v installed snowleopardfixes +universal

and then try gnutls again. Not sure exactly how this situation would have arisen. There is no ref to snowleopardfixes in my gnutls Portfile at the moment.

[kencu (Ken)]

I see what happened. In the portfile, the depends_lib is reset by this

depends_lib     port:gmp \
                port:libidn \
                port:libtasn1 \
 ...

which overwrites the depends_lib-append in the PortGroup, deleting the dependency on snowleopardfixes

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In 619f637a0f4e55ddd5d6c69f4cc9002242c2f000/macports-ports:

gnutls: Don't override dependencies set by portgroups

Closes: #54422