[Bulk] Re: older macports perl XS module linking issues after Snow Leopard Install.

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Sep 21 07:21:02 PDT 2009


On Sep 21, 2009, at 09:14, William Davis wrote:

> On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Mark Blackman wrote:
>
>> On 21 Sep 2009, at 12:41, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The correct fix when upgrading from one major OS version to  
>>> another is to uninstall all ports and reinstall them. See the  
>>> Migration page in the wiki:
>>>
>>> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
>>
>> I thought you might say something like that. :)
>>
>> I'm a bit short of time to recompile that many gigabytes for
>> now, but I'll plan for that in the near future.
>
> I had good luck with
> sudo port -u upgrade --enforce-variants installed
>
> You might want to leave off -u which deletes the prior version after  
> deactivating it.

Unfortunately, so many other users did not that we removed that method  
from the Migration page and do not recommend its use.





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