Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:28:15 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: michaelnottebrock@gmx.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide Message-ID: <20040907.132815.51857293.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200409060206.21145.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> <200409060206.21145.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> writes:
: On Monday 06 September 2004 01:27, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
: > Howdy--
: >
: > I've volunteered to rework the 5.X Early Adopters Guide into a Migration
: > Guide. The focus of this document is less about discouraging unwary
: > users and more about what kinds of changes users might encounter when
: > they move from 4.X to 5.X.
: >
: > I'd like to solicit a pre-commit review on the document at:
: >
: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html
:
: Nice document!
:
: One thing I'm missing:
:
: The pthread libraries change probably requires people to recompile things
: linked to it if they're migrating from 4.x - users updating from 5.x-Releases
: can get away with setting up libmap.conf (maybe this is true for updating
: from 4.x as well, can some threads expert comment on it?).
You should recompile everything as part of this upgrade. You can
still use libc_r on -current (I have binaries I'm still using and
haven't upgraded). You should likely do so, as well as recompile C++
programs.
Warner
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