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Date:      Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:09:07 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/36254: Conflicting function definition with standard libraries
Message-ID:  <20020324150907.A61858@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200203241620.g2OGK3X69485@freefall.freebsd.org>; from flynn@energyhq.homeip.net on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:20:03AM -0800
References:  <200203241620.g2OGK3X69485@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:20:03AM -0800, Miguel Mendez wrote:

>  Unfortunately, that will break compilation of the port on older systems,
>  where that function it's not part of libc. My humble suggestion:

We don't support using an up-to-date ports collection with an older
FreeBSD system, and typically it's up to the maintainer of a port if
he or she wants to preserve support for older machines.

What we may need to do instead is provide new upgrade kits which users
of older releases can install to add missing a minimal amount of new
functionality to their system so they can build ports.

Kris

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