Building sqlite3 fails

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Sep 13 16:58:56 PDT 2008


On Sep 13, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Lenore Horner wrote:

>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>> sudo port uninstall sqlite3 @3.6.1_0
>>> --->  Unable to uninstall sqlite3 3.6.1_0, the following ports
>>> depend on it:
>>> --->  	apr-util
>>> --->  	apr-util
>>> Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that
>>> depend on sqlite3 first.
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> You should force the uninstallation:
>>
>> sudo port -f uninstall sqlite3 @3.6.1_0
>>
>> This is fine since you will be activating 3.6.2_0 in a moment.
>>
>> MacPorts 1.7.0 and later will no longer complain in this way about
>> uninstalling a port if another version of the port is already
>> installed.
>
> How can one be sure that apr-util (or anything else) that works with
> sqlite 3.6.1_0 (or any other dependency) will also work with sqlite
> 3.6.2_0?

You'll just have to try it out. ABI-incompatible changes are rare in  
most software.



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