installed port wants to rebuild

Stanton Sanderson stansand at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 21:36:15 UTC 2019


> On Nov 7, 2019, at 10:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Nov 7, 2019, at 21:23, Stan Sanderson wrote:
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>> OS X 10.14, all installed ports up-to-date.
>> Re: kmymoney4-devel
>> 
>> Since the recent problem with kdepimlibs4 was solved (thanks!),  port upgrade outdated consistently ends with
>> --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
>> --->  Found 2 broken files, matching files to ports      
>> --->  Found 1 broken port, determining rebuild order
>> You can always run 'port rev-upgrade' again to fix errors.
>> The following ports will be rebuilt: kmymoney4-devel @4.8.1-20171206
>> 
>> port installed kmymon* returns
>> kmymoney4-devel @4.8.1-20171206_2 (active)
>> and, indeed, it is running normally. However, Iā€™m wondering where the ā€œ_2ā€ came from
> 
> 2 is the revision of the port. We increment the revision of a port when we need to push a change out to you without changing the version of the port.
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>> , why I am prompted to rebuild each time,
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> Because MacPorts has identified that it is broken, in other words it links with libraries which don't exist or aren't working. If you run `sudo port -d rev-upgrade` it will tell you specifically what files are involved.
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>> and how to correct it.
> 
> Allowing the rev-upgrade process to rebuild the port should be the correction. If that build is failing, show us the main.log.

Ticket created #59650 - forgot about the size limit for email. I attached an excerpt but will provide the entire main.log if necessary. Thanks for the response. 
Stan


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