On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:09:06PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > >No, at a minimum I am not comfortable recommending its use until it > >saves old shared libraries across updates (I sent you email about this > >a while ago), which is a vital safety and robustness mechanism. > > I am one of people that dislike this and it is not required to get build > function. ;-) I think this option should be disable by default, because > put stuff in lib/compat/pkg hides the problems. Also:
No, it is required when dealing with shared library bumps (which happen about once a week). Otherwise all of the installed ports using the library break if the new library build fails. Talk to Brooks about how annoying this is with e.g. gettext. > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q2 > ============================================== > [...] > Prevent two versions of the same library. > > A common source of build failures is the existence of multiple versions of > the same library. This can happen if you have two different versions of a > port installed, or can even happen through normal portupgrade use. You can > back up the libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg and remove them, and > then run portupgrade -u -rf pkg-config. This will force a rebuild of all > GNOME-related apps (and a fair number of other apps) without retaining old > versions of libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg. > ============================================== I dispute the correctness of this entry. The old libraries in lib/compat/pkg are not linked to directly by new builds. The only situation in which something might end up being linked to 2 versions of the library is if it pulls in a library dependency from an existing port that is still linked to the old library. In this situation the build would be broken with or without lib/compat/pkg (in the latter case, you have an installed port linked to a library that is entirely missing, so that port will be nonfunctional). Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
