Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:49:51 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: kstewart@urx.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: README.TXT and RELNOTES.TXT not updated before release tag? Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007261847480.304-100000@armani.yourfit.com> In-Reply-To: <879.964649832@localhost>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > It was a generic one. We now have new binary libraries and it
> > would seem that some ports could be affected by the change from
> > 4.0 to 4.1. There were some drastic changes to the binutils and
> > etc.
>
> There's no generic answer to your generic question. :-)
>
> The answer, of course, is "it depends." With over 3600 ports, it's
> simply not possible to enumerate the list of potentially affected
> ports. Simply proceed forward cautiously using your best judgement
> as to when and how you upgrade a 3rd-party component.
I learned the hard way that you will probably want to rebuild
your X server (I booted RC0 and got a black screen, from which I
couldn't even escape to a virtual terminal). Aside from that,
whatever spits out unresolved symbols or dumps core.
Ain't I helpful? :-)
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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