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Date:      Sun, 31 May 1998 01:11:58 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning
Message-ID:  <19980531011158.16813@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <l0313030bb195de7042c4@[208.2.87.10]>; from Richard Wackerbarth on Sat, May 30, 1998 at 04:15:40PM -0500
References:  <199805282015.PAA01671@detlev.UUCP> <199805292120.OAA14978@usr04.primenet.com> <l0313030bb195de7042c4@[208.2.87.10]>

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On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 04:15:40PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> 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. :-(

Have you looked at the XANDF structure?  It actually does address this
point (by doing the final stages of compilation as the program is
installed, and being able to take care of that kind of dependencies at
that point).

Eivind.

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