portupgrade -R order

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Robert Huff wrote:
> Andrea Venturoli writes:
> 
>>  I have a question about the order in which portupgrade -R handles ports.
>>  
>>  If I issue:
>>  portupgrade -R it-openoffice.org
>>  
>>  it will upgrade openoffice.org, *then* gcc43.
>>  
>>  I would guess openoffice.org requires gcc43 to build, but then, 
>>  shouldn't it be handled *before*?
>>  
>>  (This is only an example, it happens with other ports too).
> 
> 	1) I can confirm this is not unique to OpenOffice; it's
> currently happening to me with bash.
> 	2) Does OpenOffice require gcc-4.3.4?  Not according to
> "pkg_info -r".  It might be an indirect dependency, but then one
> would expect things to still build in the correct order.

My experience is that openoffice will NOT build properly if gcc43 is 
installed.  So maybe it deinstalled gcc43, built openoffice, and then 
rebuilt gcc43.