Re: DarwinPorts 1.3.1

On Aug 1, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Paul Guyot wrote:

>
> Le 2 août 06 à 11:08, Anthony Agelastos a écrit :
>
>>
>> On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 1, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>>>> I know that I can uninstall this Octave, then build DP, and then  
>>>> re-install Octave, but that seems messy and complicated,  
>>>> especially since there will be more updates to DP (and it would  
>>>> be nice to use the efficient selfupdate). Any ideas? Thank you  
>>>> for your assistance.
>>>
>>> You could move aside libreadline from /usr/local/lib, build DP,  
>>> and then move it back. (keep in mind that you'll need to do this  
>>> whenever you want to re-build DP).
>> I moved libreadline.a to libreadline.a.temp and it still bombed.  
>> Any ideas?
>
> Of course. You would have needed to remove the headers, too.
>
> Simply update to HEAD, a fix for the problem has been committed  
> yesterday.
>
> The procedure is described here:
> http://opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2006-July/034983.html
>
> This will also give you 8 additional improvements over 1.3.1.
> http://cvs.opendarwin.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/projects/darwinports/ 
> base/ChangeLog?rev=1.46

If the release process isn't ferreting out bugs, or is not agile  
enough to incorporate fixes quickly enough, do you have a suggestion  
for improving the situation?
Telling users to switch to CVS for the latest changes negates the  
purpose of doing releases at all, which was to shield users from  
unstable code in HEAD.

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