From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 11 20:58: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.erols.com (smtp4.erols.com [207.172.3.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC72114D4A for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:58:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-112.s49.as1.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.112]) by smtp4.erols.com (8.8.8/smtp-v1) with ESMTP id XAA16367; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:57:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907120357.XAA16367@smtp4.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:58:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: HELP!!! -CURRENT libtool problem. Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Nicolas Blais , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Nik Clayton , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message