From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 11 16:10:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from megadodo.segNET.COM (megadodo.segNET.COM [206.34.181.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5361D14EE9 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adams@digitalspark.net) Received: from arc0a23.bf.sover.net (adams@arc0a23.bf.sover.net [209.198.85.23]) by megadodo.segNET.COM (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29236; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:09:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:12:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam Strohl To: Nik Clayton Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Nicolas Blais , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem. In-Reply-To: <19990711220050.A31542@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > Q: I want to use this cool piece of software that's in the FreeBSD > ports system. But I can't build it on my 3.x-stable system. > > Why not? > > A: Ah, sorry. The ports system only targets -current, trying to get > it to work with -stable is too much work. If you want to be sure > of using the ports system successfully you need to be running > -current. > A: E-mail the port maintainer. You'll find that's a lot easier. And if the port maintainer doesn't respond/and or you want it fixed ASAP, instead of going through the hassel of (for new people) learning how to cvsup make build world, etc, fix the problem yourself. Also: Last I checked the port system didn't "target" -current. Infact I bet more stuff compiles under -stable than -current, esspecially when things are getting shaken up. I think the real issue is that people see/hear that something works under -current and without thinking of the other tradeoffs (ie; they can't just type 'make' and it all works without them knowing what is going on), leap off and go to -current because at the time it was the easiest way to get something working. You're basically restating something we already know. -current has the latest. Sometimes this means that it has more because its all working pretty well, sometimes it doesn't. We know this. That's the point. - ----( Adam Strohl )------------------------------------------------ - - UNIX Operations/Systems http://www.digitalspark.net - - adams (at) digitalspark.net xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxx - - ----------------------------------------( DigitalSpark.NET )------- - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message