<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Jan 17, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Rainer Müller <<a href="mailto:raimue@macports.org" class="">raimue@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 2016-01-17 18:13, Murray Eisenberg wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">1. Each time I upgrade any ports, automatically MacPorts notices that<br class="">the port for qt4-mac is broken and attempts to build it again.<br class=""><br class="">Is there any way to do upgrades of other points without the<br class="">time-consuming (always failing) attempt to rebuild qt4-mac?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">sudo port [upgrade|install] --no-rev-upgrade<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">2. I’d try to uninstall qt4-mac and re-install the older version that, I<br class="">believe, was unbroken. But there are a whole bunch of other ports that<br class="">depend on it. How may I get around uninstalling those dependent ports<br class="">and reinstalling them later? (I believe I need to use a “-f” parameter<br class="">but otherwise am uncertain how to do this.)<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">You probably still have the older qt4-mac installed, so you can simply<br class="">reactivate it:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort#reactivate" class="">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort#reactivate</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>The older qt4-mac (<span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px;" class="">qt4-mac @4.8.7_2) </span>is still active. It just won’t upgrade to current version.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Why is the build of qt4-mac failing? You should rather get that fixed in<br class="">order to get the latest version.<br class=""><br class="">Rainer<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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