port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

[paul beard]

On Mar 30, 2004, at 12:23 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> A more interesting question would be what output do you get
> from:
>
>     % pkg_info -g jpeg-\* tiff-\*

[/usr/local/lib]# ls -l libjpeg* libtiff*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  159384 Mar 30 08:04 libjpeg.a
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  354610 Mar 29 21:11 libtiff.a

[/usr/local/lib]# pkg_info -g jpeg-\* tiff-\*
Information for jpeg-6b_2:

Mismatched Checksums:
pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so doesn't exist

pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.9 doesn't exist


Information for tiff-3.6.1_1:

Mismatched Checksums:
pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so doesn't exist

pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so.4 doesn't exist

Hmm, portinstall -f on those two ports seems to get caught in some 
recursive loop. I'm going thru my entire installed base and redoing it 
all. Perhaps there's a more clueful way to do it, but unless this will 
do any harm, it seems the most thorough.

I need to explore the docs and get a better understanding of the ports 
tools: I seem to find this happening again and again.

Thanks for the quick and detailed reply.

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Paul Beard
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