Chuck Robey writes: > If that were true, but it's not. Older versions of the config files and > libraries can very easily cause the ports to fail to build. Every time > I upgrade stuff, I have to go about doing search and destroy on old > stuff. On top of that, there are various mistakes in dependencies; > there's one lib (I forget which) which installs under one name, but all > of the dependencies on it are under another name. The stuff seems to > change it's mind on whether it wants to install under /usr/local or > /usr/X11R6, so finding stuff is pretty complicated, and very dependent > on version, because the darn install dirs change, just to make things > worse.
I'll bet the library you're thinking of is libtix. David O'Brien just committed fixes for it yesterday. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
