Hi Doug, > > It's not only QT: the ports system is a bit sensitive and if you recompile > > a library, you should actually recompile all the apps that depend on it. > > In my experience this is sometimes, but not always necessary. One of the key > benefits of shared libraries is that you usually don't have to recompile the > binaries. For example, on my desktop, with 166 ports installed, the only > library that I need to reinstall its dependencies is gnutls. I've also done several portupgrade -a that succeded but, several times, application started breaking (and it is difficult to tell in advance when this happens). The first times, I reinstalled the complete system (fairly unhappy about it) but, last time, I went through the exercise of recompiling all dependencies that were (from a compilation date point of view, not version) out of date and it worked. When you have 166 ports installed, it's OK. When you have in the order of 800+, it is more painful... Cheers -- "If there is no solution, there is no problem" Shadok proverb ---------------------------------------------- Olivier Gautherot olivier_at_gautherot.net Tel: +56 8 730 9361Received on Fri May 26 2006 - 18:52:32 UTC
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