port upgrade outdated fails

[Mark Brethen]

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> On Aug 27, 2019, at 8:13 AM, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> Do what it says. Install arpack and mpich-default with the same fortran variants.
>>> 
>>> Most probably you have mpich-default installed with the older gcc8 variant active, so just uninstall it and then reinstall with the new default, which is gcc9.
>>> 
>>> Chris
>> It’s not that simple, there are several dependent ports that were built to the gcc8 variant. Why did the default gcc change in the first place?
> 
> gcc9 default the default when it was release, last year.
> 
> Its up to you what you do here. either use gcc8, or gcc9. not a mixture of both.
> 
> Chris
> 

If the port was built with the gcc8 variant, ‘port upgrade outdated’ shouldn’t change that. Doesn’t make sense.