If mixing ports and non-ports, you probably want to install the non-ports things to a different prefix other than /usr/local (and set shlib_dirs as appropriate). Then you can leave the versions needed for packages alone.
You'll only get minimal support, if any, for doing this - we simply do not have resources to assist much with this - it's better to spend our limited time on things which improve OpenBSD itself rather than things to help out individual users. On 2013-04-14, Alan Corey <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure how to look this up, and it doesn't seem to be in the FAQ. > > I frequently add stuff that isn't in ports by building from sources. > Sometimes this real world stuff needs newer versions of other things > than what's in ports. But the port is already installed and has > things depending on it. So I have to uninstall the dependencies, > uninstall the port, then install the newer version. Sometimes I can > take the distfile from the uninstalled dependency and build it as a > generic tarball outside the ports system, sometimes it has too many > patches to make it worthwhile. > > For example: I've just gotten fldigi running under 5.0 and 5.2, but > the fltk 1.x in ports is too old to work. I had to uninstall it, > which meant aqsis had to be uninstalled. Turns out there's a newer > aqsis too but I haven't started on that yet. > > I'm not in a position to make updated ports because I don't run current. > > BTW it's easy to install fldigi right now. Just download and unpack > it, cd into it, do setenv LIBS "-lossaudio -lexecinfo" then > ./configure, gmake, gmake install. Great program for hams, also does > wefax. You need fltk 1.3.0 though. The ports hamlib is old so if > you've got a recent radio you need to update that. You also need > libexecinfo, libsamplerate, portaudio, xmlrpc. I have gnuradio built > but not working yet: troubleshooting via the gnuradio list. > > Alan > I already have a port for older Fldigi but it needed system headers to be changed to avoid exporting nitems outside the kernel which was on the cards for being fixed properly, however I see they have a hack for this in Fldigi now (#if defined(__OpenBSD__) && defined(nitems) ... undef nitems, blech) so I'll look at updating that.
