giflib in graphics/gdal
ajtiM
lumiwa at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 21:37:34 UTC 2012
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 15:27:09 Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2012-Feb-21 14:51:50 -0500, Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >> Is it correct to use portmaster -o graphics/giflib graphics/libungif
> >
> >Looks OK to me.
>
> And then rebuild all ports that used libungif.
>
> >> And thew next question is I have in /var/db/pgs bot giflib and libingif.
> >> How can I find whic one is installed, please? Or are both?
> >
> >They install files to the same place, overwriting each other. So whichever
> >one was installed last would be the one that's really installed.
>
> It's not quite that simple. Both install include/gif_lib.h but the
> associated libraries have different names. If you have both
> installed, the most most recently installed will select which
> include/gif_lib.h is used but the library used will depend on the
> whims of the port's configuration tools.
>
> >is they're very similar, so it didn't cause problems. Nevertheless, it's
> >still a bad idea for them both to be installed, hence the addition of the
> >conflict between them.
>
> It's very unfortunate that the ports depending on libungif weren't all
> cleaned up before the conflict was added. The current situation is a
> mess and, for many people, requires manual intervention to make the
> ports system work.
I did use portmaster -o and looks like it works for now without problems...
Mitja
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