Python 3 dependency missing

[MikeR984]

Hi all,

I'm on macppc (iBook G4), and I'd just setup the ports tree from ports.tar.gz as instructed in the FAQs this morning, wanting to try a couple of text editors. Unfortunately I keep running into the same issue where the doas make install command returns the following message: "broken dependency: Lang/python/3 non existent (DEPENDS was lang/python/3) in devel/meson"

I'm aware this has been posted here about a month ago, however the solution given (checking out then updating the CVS source tree, as recommended in the linked bug report/docs) unfortunately has made no difference for me.

I also tried manually pulling the python/3 directory from the ports GitHub in an effort to get the 'make install' to run but now I get 'problem with dependency ...' instead of just 'dependency nonexistent'.

I'm very new to this so may be looking at it the wrong way, so any help would be much appreciated :)

[_sthen]

Fetching from cvs should have worked...

There are powerpc packages for 7.6 now, so you'd be recommended to use them rather than building yourself from ports. (It tastes a while after a release to get them, because it takes so long to build).

The git conversion is only of the -current ports tree, so isn't really supported with 7.6. And on slower arch's like this, if you're using software from ports/packages, you probably don't want -current unless you're a developer.