From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 11 16:37:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE8D150BC for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:37:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-3-43.ucdavis.edu [169.237.17.43]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27204; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA53048; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:37:28 GMT (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:37:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Nik Clayton Cc: Nicolas Blais , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem. Message-ID: <19990711163727.A52930@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <37810FDD.C1321FE7@videotron.ca> <37887C61.2F462FD@newsguy.com> <19990711220050.A31542@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990711220050.A31542@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 10:00:50PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. > > > 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