Multiple versions of same package installed

[philipz]

All,

I am having some problems with compiling some code due to a libtool error. It seems that the code needs libtool v2 at least. Here's what I have installed on my system:

myserver# pkg_version -v | grep libtool
libtool-1.5.24                      =   up-to-date with port
libtool-2.2.10                      =   up-to-date with port
myserver#libtool --version
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.24 (1.1220.2.455 2007/06/24 02:13:29)

It seems there are two libtool versions installed and the oldest version is used? Sorry if the above does not make sense as I'm definitely not a power user :\

Thanks for any help!

 

[SirDice]

# pkg_delete libtool-1.5.24

You might want to remove the other one too.

# pkg_delete libtool-2.2.10

 

[jnbek]

Aye, I have the same problem with the Berkeley DB packages. I have like five versions installed, from 41 to 52. It's annoying, some you can tweak in pkgtools.conf to use the latest, but there are differences in some that certain packages rely on and will segfault if the lower version isn't linked against. I wish they'd just consolidate the packages, and make it where one version does all the right things.

 

[SirDice]

Read /usr/ports/UPDATING before installing something new or updating existing stuff.

Sometimes ports change their name and if not handled properly you can get situations like yours. Mind you there are a few ports that have multiple versions in the ports tree, all of which can be installed at the same time without any problems.