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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:17:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        "Richard J. Kuhns" <rjk@grauel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hint for anyone going from 2.2.x to 3.x/4.x
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001180014330.15992-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <14458.1031.343602.739791@sawmill.grauel.com>

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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

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