Re: Update of recode-dev fails during compile

> On Dec 1, 2025, at 01:14, Daniel E. Macks <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Scott Hannahs via Fink-users <[email protected]> said:
>> On Nov 30, 2025, at 13:35, Daniel E. Macks <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I think =E2=80=9Cfortunes=E2=80=9D needs it?  Those were just updated =
>> and when I did an update all it told me that recode-shlibs is out of =
>> date and needed to be updated?  If it can use recode3 then an update to =
>> fortunes would fix that.  Actually looks  like I can remove =
>> recode-shlibs with no issues so that removes my need.  Possibly OS =
>> version limit it sort of to effectively put it on EOL?
> 
> If you have an older fortunes-mod installed, then you also have
> recode-shlibs installed. After selfupdate, Now there is a new
> fortune-mod available (that I know uses recode3-shlibs instead or
> recode-shlibs) and a new recode-shlibs available (for various
> reasons). When you 'update-all', fink does what you say, including
> trying to update recode-shlibs. It doesn't know "first update
> fortunes-mod, then don't bother with recode-shlibs or maybe even
> uninstall it".
> 
> It would be interesting if update-all had an --exclude flag, but you'd
> still need a way to figure out what to exclude. These are all to say
> that update-all is pretty fragile. Instead, try doing the steps
> manually...updating just fortune-mod, then nuking recode-shlibs. Then
> maybe update-all would work on whatever else you have out-of-date? I
> just grepped my whole current stable/main/finkinfo tree, and the only
> mention of recode-shlibs is in php5 and recode-shlibs itself.
> 
> For the record, recode-shlibs has built repeatedly for me on 26.0. But
> your error suggests there's a missing detail in a Makefile that might
> be solved by putting MaxBuildJobs:false in the .info.
> 
> dan

Sounds right.  I removed the recode-shlibs and fink listed no dependencies.  This is sort of an orphan dependency.  Someday I will try to parse the installed dependencies and see if I can get a routine that will list the top level installs and the orphan dependencies.

The ignore would be nice but a bit cumbersome to figure out which packages are no-longer needed. However, a fink command line option to set the number of MaxBuildJobs would be helpful for debugging instead of calling configure to set it to one and then again to set it back.

-Scott



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