libtool note in UPDATING

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:53:57 -0600, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>  
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:06:55PM -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote:
>> Am I reading the entry for libtool in UPDATING correctly?  It seems to
>> me to basically say "There's no way to tell you how to successfully
>> update your ports with the new libtool, hope you really understand how
>> all the ports interact with each other, good night and good luck."
>>
>> Now, I *DO* sort of understand the need for this change from reading the
>> entry, and I'm not arguing the fact that the change needed to be made. I
>> just don't know where to go from here because now I'm afraid to update
>> any of my ports since I'm not sure I would understand the output of the
>> -n flag enough to figure out how to update my ports.
>>
>> Is there a more straightforward explanation of how to upgrade ports with
>> the new libtool?
>
> Basically, portupgrade -a should be OK (but watch out for the perl
> upgrade as well, i.e. read that entry too).  If you run into problems
> let us know; I'd like to refine that entry with a working prescription
> before the release.

I doubt the 'portupgrade -a' will working on any ports that depend on  
glib12, gtk12 and etc. I would go with -af or -afr to force rebuild all  
apps if you want to use portupgrade instead remove ports and reinstall  
stuff as suggested in the UPDATING.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Kris


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