Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:44:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: asfdqwer xzcvdsf <brueggma@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc questions / comments / rambelings Message-ID: <20040531104051.U95992@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040530154955.97006.qmail@web21322.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040530154955.97006.qmail@web21322.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 30 May 2004, asfdqwer xzcvdsf wrote: > I just moved from 5.2.1 to current and had > a few comments. Upgrading from 5.2.1 which first > required me to upgrade config, which required > me to upgrade flex. None of these are documented > in UPGRADING Hm... that wasn't necessary the last time I tried it. I'll see if I can reproduce. > Now that I'm running current is there anything > special I have to change in make.conf? Should > I still have to define "WITH_THREADS" and > "WITH_LIBMAP" or do the ports autorecognize > the kse --> pthreads change? As long as your ports tree is up to date and you don't have anything threads-related in /etc/make.conf or /etc/libmap.conf, you should be ok. You will have to rebuild anything that uses threads, though, and that includes XFree86. If you have kde and/or qt installed it gets a little more complicated. > I've also had a few problems with a mammoth > drive my box. When ever I tried to restore > a large tar to disk the machine would crash > hard. This was when I was running 5.2.1, I > haven't tried current yet. Not sure what you mean here, more detail would be nice. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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