Hello,
 
Can anyone explain me why it is impossible to upgrade /devel/glib2/ via
ports without complettly removing it first?

If you make a normal "make update" it fails during compilation, but if you
pkg_del the current version, and try to build it, it compiles.

...snip...
/usr/local/bin/libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link cc  -O2 -pipe -Wall
-L/usr/local/lib -o gtester gtester.o libglib-2.0.la -lintl -liconv
cc -O2 -pipe -Wall -o .libs/gtester gtester.o  -L/usr/local/lib -L./.libs
-lglib-2.0 -lpcre -lintl -liconv -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.1400.3: warning: vsprintf() is often misused,
please use vsnprintf()
/usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.1400.3: warning: strcpy() is almost always
misused, please use strlcpy()
/usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.1400.3: warning: strcat() is almost always
misused, please use strlcat()
gtester.o(.text+0x56c): In function `child_report_cb':
: undefined reference to `g_test_log_buffer_push'
gtester.o(.text+0x574): In function `child_report_cb':
: undefined reference to `g_test_log_buffer_pop'
gtester.o(.text+0x592): In function `child_report_cb':
: undefined reference to `g_test_log_msg_free'
gtester.o(.text+0x8f1): In function `launch_test_binary':
: undefined reference to `g_test_log_buffer_new'
gtester.o(.text+0x9fe): In function `launch_test_binary':
: undefined reference to `g_test_log_buffer_free'
gtester.o(.text+0x14ff): In function `fixture_setup':
: undefined reference to `g_assertion_message_cmpnum'
gtester.o(.text+0x152e): In function `fixture_test':
: undefined reference to `g_test_message'
gtester.o(.text+0x153a): In function `fixture_test':
: undefined reference to `g_test_bug_base'
gtester.o(.text+0x1546): In function `fixture_test':
: undefined reference to `g_test_bug'
gtester.o(.text+0x1552): In function `fixture_test':
: undefined reference to `g_test_bug_base'
gtester.o(.text+0x15b1): In function `fixture_test':
: undefined reference to `g_assertion_message_cmpnum'
gtester.o(.text+0x1626): In function `fixture_teardown':
: undefined reference to `g_assertion_message_cmpnum'
gtester.o(.text+0x1645): In function `main_selftest':
: undefined reference to `g_test_init'
gtester.o(.text+0x1664): In function `main_selftest':
: undefined reference to `g_test_add_vtable'
gtester.o(.text+0x166c): In function `main_selftest':
: undefined reference to `g_test_run'
gtester.o(.text+0x1565): In function `fixture_test':
: undefined reference to `g_test_bug'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[4]: *** [gtester] Error 1
...snip...

My problem is that to remove glib2, I also have to remove all the packages
that depend on it.
So, can anyone tell me why does this happen?

Thanks

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