Thanks.  That’s what I was hoping, but it is good to confirm.

--Adam



> On Oct 22, 2015, at 4:24 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> sudo port -v -s upgrade -n --force xorg-libXt +flat_namespace
> 
> +flat_namespace can't break anything.  Installing libXt with +flat_namespace 
> will give you the exact same thing you already had.
> -flat_namespace *can* break things (like openmotif), which is why openmotif 
> requires the +flat_namespace variant.
> 
> I added the +flat_namespace variant in order to give users on such legacy 
> software an option until (if ever) those libraries are fixed.
> 
> When trac comes back, see https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45712
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
>> On Oct 22, 2015, at 05:40, Adam Dershowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I normally would have done some searching on for tickets and such, but at 
>> the moment some of the Macports servers are having issues, so I figured I 
>> would just ask you about it directly.  I hope that you don’t mind.
>> I just saw that open motif and xorg-libXt both are outdated and I tried to 
>> upgrade them.  Macports upgraded xorg-libXt just fine, but then when it 
>> tried to upgrade open motif it complained that:
>> Error: org.macports.archivefetch for port openmotif returned: xorg-libXt 
>> must be installed with +flat_namespace.
>> Please see the log file for port openmotif for details:
>>    
>> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_x11_openmotif/openmotif/main.log
>> Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
>> 
>> I never directly installed either of these.  They were each dependents on 
>> other ports, so were installed with variants as those ports set them up.  
>> So, I wanted to check how best to go about getting this upgrade to work, and 
>> to make sure that installing with +flat_namespace is not going to start 
>> breaking other ports such as ImageMagick and ghostscript since each of those 
>> uses these ports?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> --Adam
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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