From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 31 03:03:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA00929 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 03:03:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (daemon@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA00918 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 03:03:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA22341; Sun, 31 May 1998 03:03:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd022324; Sun May 31 03:03:02 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA20637; Sun, 31 May 1998 03:03:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805311003.DAA20637@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 10:03:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Richard Wackerbarth" at May 30, 98 04:15:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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. :-( The point is to make a port for FreeBSD 3.x work on FreeBSD 235.x, not the reverse. In other words, "compile once, run anywhere". The binary compatability from FreeBSD 3.x to FreeBSD 235.x is a problem for the XANDF processor during the install. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message