How to avoid rebuilding binaries with linking errors?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Clemens Lang wrote:
> ----- On 7 Oct, 2015, at 10:19, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> I don't find anything seemingly relevant there, but in any case I
>> would like to have a command-line option to do that only when I'm
>> intentionally upgrading just a portion of outdated ports (or maybe the
>> best option would be if I could configure the global settings in such
>> a way that the installation script would actually check for broken
>> ports, but would only warn me and list broken ports without actually
>> trying to repair the situation).
>
> That's exactly what that setting does. Check macports.conf.default to
> see the documentation for it.

Bingo. I see it now in macports.conf.default, but not in
macports.conf. The most likely explanation would be that my MacPorts
installation is *very* old and predates the time when this setting was
introduced. (MacPorts would of course never change or overwrite the
contents of macports.conf.)

And thanks to Davide for the hint about --no-rev-upgrade. I did look
into man, but apparently looked for the wrong thing or simply missed
it.

Thank you,
    Mojca