From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Dec 5 23: 4: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD0E14DEE; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:03:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA13745; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 02:03:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 02:03:20 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Will Andrews Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, se@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The verdict has come in.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Will Andrews wrote: > -ports, Stefan, Andreas, > > [ weary sigh ] > > My futile attempts at trying to allow for more than one version of Qt > 1.42 and KDE 1.1.2 libraries (as in, compiled by more than one version of > gcc/g++) have failed. Of course, I spent a few hours hacking bsd.port.mk, > creating new ports (qt-newgcc-1.42, kdelibs11-newgcc-1.1.2), et cetera. It won't > work. Making multiple versions of software coexist has been the reason that so much software that is ported is totally incompatible with any add-on packages that *aren't* ports. It's because the usual strategy involves changing paths and pathnames to configuration files. I know this is a pain to those who don't want to run the very latest versions all the time, but I'm (for one) glad to have only one version work, because I really dislike all the problems multiple version hacks give me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message