Installing Openoffice.org-2-RC and bison conflicts

Clint Olsen clint.olsen at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 23:33:45 UTC 2007


On Jun 18, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Two ports which install files to the same place conflict-- you can't
> have two different versions of a file at the same path location.   With
> some work, it is possible to install multiple versions of some  ports
> (like Perl, Berkeley DB, GNU autoconf, etc) using a version #  suffix,
> and symlink the version you prefer to the unqualified name:
> 
> % ls -l /usr/local/bin/perl5
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  24 Mar 23  2006 /usr/local/bin/perl5@ -> / 
> usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8
> 
> ...but it doesn't magically happen.

Ok, so I'm required to resolve this myself if I want to install this port?

-Clint


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