Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

[Xin Liu]

On 7/27/07, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2007, at 8:05 PM, Xin Liu wrote:
> > I think an easier and safer way of is to modify the logic in
> > macports::upgrade{} such that when it tries to upgrade things in
> > $portinfo(depends_build), $portinfo(depends_run) and
> > $portinfo(depends_lib), for every bin/lib style dependency, it does
> > one of the following: 1) if the bin/lib file does not exist, install
> > the corresponding port (the port specified at the end of the bin/lib
> > style); 2) if the bin/lib file exists and the corresponding port is
> > installed, upgrade the corresponding port; 3) otherwise, do nothing.
>
> That would probably work ... (at least, it addresses the concern that
> I had).
>
> If you want to make a patch to have it work that way, I'd be happy to
> review it.

I'll try it. But I'm not a good programmer... Anyone is welcome to do it.

Best
Regards,

Xin Liu