Trouble updating qt3

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 28, 2011, at 14:34, Dan Ports wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:57:09AM -0500, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote:
>> The original problem was related to file permissions?? I was unable to
>> solve this problem any other way, like changing permissions on the
>> files that could not be written to and or running selfupdate and port
>> upgrade outdated
> 
> It looks like the qt3 port needs to run ranlib on any
> previously-installed qt3 library before building (I'm not entirely
> clear on why), so the build process needs to run as root. I made it do
> so in r81275.

That sounds like qt3 is not properly observing the destroot. I'm guessing it should be running ranlib on the copy in the destroot, not an existing copy already in prefix.