On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:01:21AM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > >> # pwd > >> /usr/ports > >> # find . -name "Makefile*" | xargs grep "gmp>=" > > Don't do that. Learn to use sqlports, please. > > Ok I will. I guess eventually package management will move to a sqlite > database?
No. That would mean sqlite + DBI in base. DBI won't probably happen soon... > I was using dpb -R to compile GNOME3 and Firefox5 and hit on a problem > in lang/guile. When I changed gmp>=4 in the Makefile there (instead of > gmp>=6), the compile went ahead. I was unsure if it was a known > problem, and wanted to ask more knowledgeable people about it. This > happened right after you tightened the pkg_add infrastructure. Too > many things happened to trigger the rebuild. dpb -R is still very experimental. Tweaking things to make it work "better" is not recommended yet.
