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Date:      Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:58:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Nicolas Blais <nicblais@videotron.ca>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem.
Message-ID:  <199907120357.XAA16367@smtp4.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907120931400.8860-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>

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On 12-Jul-99 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
>> > 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. Likely because someone running only on a -current box last committed
>>    a change to the port which broke it with 3.x.  Please submit a bug
>>    report on this with send-pr since the -current ports collection is
>>    supposed
>>    to work with both the -current and -stable branches.  If you're running a
>>    release version that lags significantly behind -current or -stable, you
>>    will require a ports upgrade kit from http://www.freebsd.org/ports
> 
> Does someone plan to add this question and the other one about the dangers
> of -current to the FAQ? I think they are both well-answered.

PR/12595
PR/12599
 
> Kris

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