From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 29 14:35:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.oblivion.bg (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED8F437B4CF for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 47377 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Oct 2000 22:35:07 -0000 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:35:06 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Laurence Berland Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade a port Message-ID: <20001030003505.C500@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Laurence Berland , ports@freebsd.org References: <39FCA42D.5462149D@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39FCA42D.5462149D@confusion.net>; from stuyman@confusion.net on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 04:26:53PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 04:26:53PM -0600, Laurence Berland wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade KDE2 from a pre- to the current version. I had > previously installed using the metaport, so I go to /usr/ports/x11/kde2 > and type 'make deinstall.' Now I go 'make' but nothing happens > > dhcp089221# make > dhcp089221# Yup, 'make' does nothing, because it sees that you've already built something. You need to 'make clean' to clean up everything left over from your previous build. > > make reinstall just reinstalls the same stuff again, by just finding > that all the things it depends on have been installed, and then > reregistering itself 'make reinstall' depends on what the 'make all' (a.k.a. 'make build') thinks on what needs to be remade - in your case, nothing. > > dhcp089221# make reinstall [snip] > > Any ideas on the cleanest way to deal with all this and upgrade kde2 > from sources? Yup, do a 'make clean' and then 'make' (synonymous to 'make all'). You can do both with a single command - 'make clean all' You may even try 'make deinstall clean all reinstall' :) HTH. G'luck, Peter -- Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message