From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 16:14:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22772 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:14:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22501 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA16141 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 23:13:40 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id BAA06594; Sun, 31 May 1998 01:11:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980531011158.16813@follo.net> Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 01:11:58 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning References: <199805282015.PAA01671@detlev.UUCP> <199805292120.OAA14978@usr04.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Richard Wackerbarth on Sat, May 30, 1998 at 04:15:40PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message