From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 18 0:17: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 02E9114A17; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:17:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81241CD645; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:17:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:17:07 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Richard J. Kuhns" Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hint for anyone going from 2.2.x to 3.x/4.x In-Reply-To: <14458.1031.343602.739791@sawmill.grauel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Richard J. Kuhns wrote: > system, but failed on another (Imlib was one). All dependencies were found > with no trouble; it just didn't work. > > After some searching, I found the problem: libtool. Even though I had the Well, to be fair libtool *is* a dependency, just a hidden one. The USE_LIBTOOL line adds its own BUILD_DEPENDS to the makefile. You could have saved yourself the trouble by just doing 'make ALWAYS_BUILD_DEPENDS=yes' which will automatically recompile everything the port depends on. Useful for these kinds of massive upgrades :-) Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message