From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 8 20:37:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A0C14FC3 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id WAA14496; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:35:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA84513; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:27:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bruce) From: Bruce Albrecht MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:27:32 -0500 (CDT) To: Chuck Robey Cc: Alex Zepeda , John Polstra , asmodai@wxs.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14093.29000.147643.10859@zuhause.mn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey writes: > If that were true, but it's not. Older versions of the config files and > libraries can very easily cause the ports to fail to build. Every time > I upgrade stuff, I have to go about doing search and destroy on old > stuff. On top of that, there are various mistakes in dependencies; > there's one lib (I forget which) which installs under one name, but all > of the dependencies on it are under another name. The stuff seems to > change it's mind on whether it wants to install under /usr/local or > /usr/X11R6, so finding stuff is pretty complicated, and very dependent > on version, because the darn install dirs change, just to make things > worse. I'll bet the library you're thinking of is libtix. David O'Brien just committed fixes for it yesterday. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message