Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:37:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: Nicolas Blais <nicblais@videotron.ca>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem. Message-ID: <19990711163727.A52930@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <19990711220050.A31542@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 10:00:50PM %2B0100 References: <37810FDD.C1321FE7@videotron.ca> <37887C61.2F462FD@newsguy.com> <19990711220050.A31542@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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> Q: I want to use this cool piece of software that's in the FreeBSD > ports system. But I can't build it on my 3.x-stable system. Why not? > > A: Ah, sorry. The ports system only targets -current, trying to get it to > work with -stable is too much work. If you want to be sure of using the > ports system successfully you need to be running -current. > </advocate> > > Or was this policy reversed recently and I didn't notice (always a > likely possibility). That policy was reversed back in August 1997 (2.2.6 or so). Ever since then Ports track -STABLE and until recently, Satoshi was only building packages on -STABLE machines. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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