On 2018-04-13 23:55, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2018-4-14 07:30 , Enrico Maria Crisostomo wrote: >> Hence, the macports installation that was built from the dirty tree is >> referring to the installation directory of the previous build. That also >> explains why removing that directory makes port crash, as I said in a >> previous mail. > > OK, so the issue is not with switching tags without cleaning at all, but > configuring for a different prefix without cleaning. The bug is in one > of Tcl's Makefiles, which compiles tclPkgConfig.c with several -D flags > using values that are directly substituted into the Makefile by > autoconf. There should probably be a dependency declared on the Makefile > itself.
FWIW, I am usually work with multiple worktrees instead of switching branches in the same directory. That way I can have directories for both master and release-2.4 side-by-side. $ pwd /Users/raimue/src/macports/base $ git worktree add ../base-2.4 release-2.4 $ cd ../base-2.4 $ cat config/macports_version 2.4.3 See the git manual for the details: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree The copy in base-2.4 is also configured to use a different prefix. As the files of the build system can stay in the filesystem, I do not have to re-configure all the time. When I want to work on release-2.4, I only have to change directory in my shell. Rainer
