How to install Google WEBP on Mac OSX Mavericks via Macports

06
2014-04
  • bzero

    I run Mac OS 10.9.1 (Mavericks) and I would like to install Google's webp extension:

    sudo port install webp

    I also did a selfupdate before and an autoupdate for outdated libraries.
    However, when it builds the tiff @4.0.3 library, it builds forever (I quit after 12h)...

    Any idea?

    Log:

    --->  Computing dependencies for webp
--->  Cleaning webp
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
--->  Found 7 broken file(s), matching files to ports
--->  Found 1 broken port(s), determining rebuild order
--->  Rebuilding in order
     tiff @4.0.3 
--->  Computing dependencies for tiff
--->  Cleaning tiff
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
--->  Found 7 broken file(s), matching files to ports
--->  Found 1 broken port(s), determining rebuild order
--->  Rebuilding in order
     tiff @4.0.3 
--->  Computing dependencies for tiff
--->  Fetching distfiles for tiff
--->  Verifying checksums for tiff
--->  Extracting tiff
--->  Applying patches to tiff
--->  Configuring tiff
--->  Building tiff
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