From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 24 15: 9:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-239.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75BB37B404 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:09:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DB0DE66C39; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:09:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:09:07 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Miguel Mendez Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/36254: Conflicting function definition with standard libraries Message-ID: <20020324150907.A61858@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200203241620.g2OGK3X69485@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200203241620.g2OGK3X69485@freefall.freebsd.org>; from flynn@energyhq.homeip.net on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:20:03AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8nlyTWry0BWjoQKURAiE2AKCP7YpZeuaIin6Gvgar6YEp8pLOogCgq/jU 92UAReWhBANeSoSgDOItylw= =XFXA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message