Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:33:43 -0700 From: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Openoffice.org-2-RC and bison conflicts Message-ID: <20070618233343.GA35718@0lsen.net> In-Reply-To: <46CFA84B-B49D-417B-984A-964BD2CDA53B@mac.com> References: <20070618225901.GA35682@0lsen.net> <46CFA84B-B49D-417B-984A-964BD2CDA53B@mac.com>
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On Jun 18, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Two ports which install files to the same place conflict-- you can't > have two different versions of a file at the same path location. With > some work, it is possible to install multiple versions of some ports > (like Perl, Berkeley DB, GNU autoconf, etc) using a version # suffix, > and symlink the version you prefer to the unqualified name: > > % ls -l /usr/local/bin/perl5 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Mar 23 2006 /usr/local/bin/perl5@ -> / > usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 > > ...but it doesn't magically happen. Ok, so I'm required to resolve this myself if I want to install this port? -Clint
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