Upgrading to 7.x : make check-old

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Sun Oct 5 21:07:29 UTC 2008


Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On 10/5/08, Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org> wrote:
>>  > Is that list more or less expected?  From what I can tell, it's pretty
>>  > safe to now do a make delete-old-libs.  Do you concur?
>>
>>
>> that depends on you having updated all ports/packages as well as the
>>  base system. I think I used a tool that checks which shared libraries are
>>  used by which program but can't remember how it was called; but anyway you
>>  can simply use ldd on your binaries in /usr/local/* to check if any of
>>  them still use one of the old libs.
>>
> 
> I have used the devel/libcheck utility to check for missing libraries
> after upgrading the installed ports.

Noted.  Did that.  I may compare that to the ldd output.


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