[kde-freebsd] qt upgrade strangeness

[John Nielsen]

On Thursday 05 April 2007 12:29:27 pm John Nielsen wrote:
> I've had some trouble upgrading qt on two different machines now. I'm using
> the experimental Xorg git ports tree on both and I'm not sure if that's a
> factor, which is why I'm CC-ing x11 at .
>
> In short, qt will install happily the first time but not the second. It
> looks to my untrained eye like building [an upgraded] qt when qt is already
> installed somehow taints the build. The build will complete successfully,
> but it will fail during the install step whether or not the old qt was
> uninstalled between the make and install steps--I tried an install without
> uninstalling the old one using FORCE_PKG_REGISTER and it failed
> differently, but it still failed. However, if qt and qmake are removed
> completely before starting the [new] build for qt, it will install just
> fine.
>
> I'd like to determine if 1) this is a known problem and 2) this is specific
> to the Xorg ports tree so I know whether or not to send in a PR.

I forgot to mention this was during an attempt to update qt from qt-copy-3.3.8 
to qt-copy-3.3.8_1 on a 7-CURRENT (as of several days ago) box. I also saw 
the problem on a previous qt upgrade on a machine running 6-STABLE several 
weeks ago.

JN