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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:30:04 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        John Hein <jhein@timing.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: update from 6 to 7 - needs libtool rebuild
Message-ID:  <44tzab857n.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <18716.41555.397011.981079@gromit.timing.com> (John Hein's message of "Thu\, 13 Nov 2008 14\:55\:31 -0700")
References:  <18716.24188.971858.627073@gromit.timing.com> <44od0jtim2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <18716.41555.397011.981079@gromit.timing.com>

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John Hein <jhein@timing.com> writes:

> I often don't rebuild everything right away and live with the compat
> libs for a while.
>
> That has worked fine in the past (probably had some hiccups that I've
> long since forgotten about).  But I understand why the official
> position is to rebuild everything.

There's no hurry until you start updating *some* ports.  Then you want
to upgrade everything, because it's so easy to end up linked against
more than one version of the same library.



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