From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 10:06:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AC116A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:06:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981BE43D41 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:06:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 654DA37E48; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:06:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.178]) by av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5217537E45 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:06:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 10E9D37E43 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:06:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 54803 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Oct 2004 10:06:19 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:06:19 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Subhro Message-ID: <20041014100619.GB54754@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Subhro , John Gillis , questions@freebsd.org References: <20041014000024.T27161@dante.zefram.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: John Gillis cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling 4-RELEASE on 5-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:06:22 -0000 On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:52:52AM +0530, Subhro wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:11:05 -0400 (EDT), John Gillis wrote: > > My apologies if this has already been asked. I'd like to upgrade > > my non-production machines to 5.3 > > Nice idea > > once it is released, however I'd like > > the production servers to lag behind once I make sure everything is > > working right. > > If everything is not working right, then 5.3 wouldnever be tagged > STABLE. This is not Windows. 5.3 will have bugs even when tagged -stable. I can guarantee that once 5.3 is released and people start using it more widely there will be new problems being reported that haven't been discovered yet. > 4.10-R uses gcc 2.95 and 5.3 uses gcc 3.4. The binaries compiled with > the later are not backward compatble. You do realise that you can install gcc 3.4 on a 4.x machine and run the binaries compiled with it? For C++ the ABI has changed a couple of times betwenn gcc 2.95 and gcc 3.4, but for C everything should work fine, as long as you link against the right libraries. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se