From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 14:15:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04471 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 14:15:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04461 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 14:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.10] (user10.dataplex.net [208.2.87.10]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA29900; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:15:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 16:15:40 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199805292120.OAA14978@usr04.primenet.com> References: <199805282015.PAA01671@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at May 28, 98 03:15:44 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Terry Lambert From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:20 PM -0000 5/29/98, Terry Lambert wrote: >It also means that one "ports" CDROM will work for FreeBSD 3.x and >FreeBSD 235.x. How can you make this claim? The individual ports may well rely on some feature of FreeBSD 235.x that was not present in FreeBSD 3.x. Similarly, a port for 3.x may rely on a feature that was removed before 5.0. As much as we might like to think otherwise, assumptions about the structure of the underlying OS and "hardcoded" into the source of the program. :-( Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message