Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:37:20 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>, Franci Nabalanci <lumiwa@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: giflib in graphics/gdal Message-ID: <4F456010.6040105@gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20120222212709.GA7958@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <4F434A3A.4060208@gwdg.de> <20120221084016.2fa4b3ba@scorpio> <CAJHU=opm2_siaN%2BH3m7RGjbxsdsET=kkmsCLmQ4UEc=1VGJFLQ@mail.gmail.com> <734b2be607f1ee5d9227bb76fff22d40.squirrel@mouf.net> <20120222212709.GA7958@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On 22.02.2012 22:27 (UTC+1), Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2012-Feb-21 14:51:50 -0500, Steve Wills<swills@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> Is it correct to use portmaster -o graphics/giflib graphics/libungif >> >> Looks OK to me. > > And then rebuild all ports that used libungif. > >>> And thew next question is I have in /var/db/pgs bot giflib and libingif. >>> How can I find whic one is installed, please? Or are both? >> >> They install files to the same place, overwriting each other. So whichever >> one was installed last would be the one that's really installed. > > It's not quite that simple. Both install include/gif_lib.h but the > associated libraries have different names. If you have both > installed, the most most recently installed will select which > include/gif_lib.h is used but the library used will depend on the > whims of the port's configuration tools. > >> is they're very similar, so it didn't cause problems. Nevertheless, it's >> still a bad idea for them both to be installed, hence the addition of the >> conflict between them. > > It's very unfortunate that the ports depending on libungif weren't all > cleaned up before the conflict was added. The current situation is a > mess and, for many people, requires manual intervention to make the > ports system work. Yes, for example graphics/osg is another candidate ...
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