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Date:      Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:28:37 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: Requires 'gettext-0.14.1', but 'gettext-0.14.5' is installed
Message-ID:  <200507311228.37987.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <42ECE2E1.1010903@u.washington.edu>
References:  <20050731102633.K6839@zoraida.natserv.net> <42ECE2E1.1010903@u.washington.edu>

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On Sunday 31 July 2005 07:40 am, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > Doing a set of packages so when building new machines can do the
> > whole ports installations through packages.
> >
> > When I did pkg_add mc-4.6.0_15 got the warning
> > requires 'gettext-0.14.1', but 'gettext-0.14.5' is installed
> >
> > Is it safe to ignore these type of errors?
>
> With gettext, yes. With autoconf, automake and some other GNU
> packages, no. -Garrett

That isn't completely true. It hasn't been too long since the interfaces 
in gettext were changed. Installing the wrong version could present 
problems.

When you install old versions, you can have problems.

Kent

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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