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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:22:22PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> 
> On Mar 31, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >What architecture is this on?  Some people have reported problems on
> >amd64 with shared libraries not being created - this appears to be
> >something to do with libtool, but I don't see it on my amd64 box.
> >
> 
> It's on x86, running 4.9.
> 
> >To work around mysterious port problems you can always just install
> >the packages instead.
> >
> 
> I tried that, but some ports want to rebuild their dependencies and I'm 
> back where I started.

You're not doing it right, then :-)

Use portupgrade with the -PP switch to force the use of packages.

Kris
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