Always recompiling same libraries.

[Ryan Schmidt]

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

> Le Sun 29/04/2007, Yves de Champlain disait
>
>> 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  ?
>
> 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."