Le 07-04-29 à 16:06, Erwan David a écrit :

I am doing some upgrades of the installed ports, but for each port libiconv and gperf get recompiled and reinstalled

For 6 or 7 ports it makes that upgrade takes more than 1 day on my PB G4.

What can I do for port to see libiconv is already the latest version and it does not need to recompile it ?

Are you using the -f force flag ? yves

On Apr 29, 2007, at 15:29, Erwan David wrote:

Le Sun 29/04/2007, Yves de Champlain disait

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Le 07-04-29 à 16:06, Erwan David a écrit :

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I am doing some upgrades of the installed ports, but for each port libiconv and gperf get recompiled and reinstalled

For 6 or 7 ports it makes that upgrade takes more than 1 day on my PB G4.

What can I do for port to see libiconv is already the latest version and it does not need to recompile it ?

Are you using the -f force flag ?

Yes otherwise ports won't uninstall old versions of libraries when upgrading them.

"-f" also means "rebuild all dependencies, each time they're encountered." Unfortunately, some dependencies, like libiconv, are required by many ports, thus they get rebuilt many times. I recommend you use "-fn" in the future. "-n" means "don't follow dependencies."

Le Mon 30/04/2007, Boey Maun Suang disait

Hi Erwan,

Try using the -n flag (don't upgrade dependencies in upgrade). I also use -u (uninstall non-active ports when upgrading and uninstalling) to get rid of old versions, along with -f to force it to do that when the old versions have things that depend on them installed. Do note, however, that you may need to rebuild ports that depend on ports that you have upgraded if you find that they don't work, in which case you can use "sudo port -ufn upgrade" rebuild the ports one by one (it's tedious, but I do it when needed).

I hope this helps.

Thanks for the explanations, I'll try it. -- Erwan