I am doing maintenance for Graphviz on MacPorts, trying to update from version 12, to current version 14.0.2. Part of the build is in effect, a stand-alone Autotools build of gvedit. This error hits when linking the executable. ld: library 'util_C' not found I see that a few references from gvedi…

@smattr Under autotools, Graphviz is a single unified build for all configured options. MacPorts tries to do something unintended. It splits the build into one core build, plus two other stand-alone builds including gvedit. This split was done long ago, possibly to isolate the graphviz core from …

Gvedit: library 'util_C' not found

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decision-making-mike November 6, 2025, 4:56pm 8

Just to note, I’ve created a separate topic for that problem: How to run gvedit?

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Gvedit: library 'util_C' not found

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