[SOLVED] multimedia/x264 build failure, linker error

[Gary Palmer]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 07:22:50PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr> wrote:
> 
> >  Le 24/11/2014 ?? 17:02:35+0000, Dave a ??crit
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Sorry but I got the same issue. But I'm not sure I understand your answer.
> >
> > >
> > > pkg delete x264 lists the installed dependances
> >
> > So you deinstall all package depends on x264-0.136.2358_4 ?
> >
> > Better to do:
> pkg delete -f x264-0.136.2358_4
> portmaster multimedia/libx264 multimedia/x264
> 
> This assumes that you use portmaster. You can use portupgrade or the basic
> 'make' commands.

Since I assume most of the packages that depend on the old x264-0.136.2358_4
depend on the library rather than the CLI command, is there any harm in
doing

portmaster -o multimedia/libx264 x264-0.136.2358_4

instead?  That way the dependancies are kept (mostly) correct

Thanks,

Gary