Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-23 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:38:14 -0700 Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: It's much safer to just leave the libraries alone. __Just because you upgraded libpng doesn't mean that your old gtk binary will stop working (assuming you are using portupgrade or portmaster -w which preserves

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-22 Thread Steve Franks
It's much safer to just leave the libraries alone.  Just because you upgraded libpng doesn't mean that your old gtk binary will stop working (assuming you are using portupgrade or portmaster -w which preserves old About to get flamed, I know Untrue. Portupgrade deletes the old version of the

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 22), Steve Franks said: It's much safer to just leave the libraries alone.  Just because you upgraded libpng doesn't mean that your old gtk binary will stop working (assuming you are using portupgrade or portmaster -w which preserves About to get flamed, I know

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 22), Dan Nelson said: In the last episode (Apr 22), Steve Franks said: (such as myself) incorrectly pointing a port at libpng.5 instead of any libpng, or libpng = 5. Once the ports tree is 'poisoned' in this fashion, there's really no going back. I'd sure vote for

there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
hello all fbsd devs i want to know if there is a possibility to avoid current strict libraries linking .. i will explain myself for example .. i have installed 'gtk' (2.18) that depends on library 'libpng.so.5' (png) .. and i will upgrade 'png' port to a superior version that install the library

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Leinier Cruz Salfran salfrancl.lis...@gmail.com wrote: hello all fbsd devs i want to know if there is a possibility to avoid current strict libraries linking .. i will explain myself

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:23:16 -0400 Leinier Cruz Salfran salfrancl.lis...@gmail.com wrote: hello all fbsd devs i want to know if there is a possibility to avoid current strict libraries linking .. i will

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:23:16 -0400 Leinier Cruz Salfran salfrancl.lis...@gmail.com wrote: hello all fbsd devs i want to know if there is a possibility to avoid current strict libraries linking .. i will explain myself for example .. i have installed 'gtk' (2.18) that depends on library

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 14), Leinier Cruz Salfran said: i want to know if there is a possibility to avoid current strict libraries linking .. i will explain myself for example .. i have installed 'gtk' (2.18) that depends on library 'libpng.so.5' (png) .. and i will upgrade 'png' port to

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Apr 14), Leinier Cruz Salfran said: i want to know if there is a possibility to avoid current strict libraries linking ..  i will explain myself for example .. i have installed 'gtk' (2.18) that

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:44:32 -0400 Leinier Cruz Salfran salfrancl.lis...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Leinier Cruz Salfran

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Leinier Cruz Salfran salfrancl.lis...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: Just because you Anyway, the FreeBSD port maintainers usually bump the revision of dependant ports when a major library like

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Leinier Cruz Salfran salfrancl.lis...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: Just because you Anyway, the FreeBSD port maintainers

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Leinier Cruz Salfran salfrancl.lis...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: The port maintainer doesn't *have to* update anything. When library ports go through a library bump like this, all the ports that