From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 19 17:53:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12722 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12709 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from bubble.didi.com (sji-ca10-63.ix.netcom.com [205.186.214.63]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA10830; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by bubble.didi.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01220; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:52:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808200052.RAA01220@bubble.didi.com> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au CC: jb@cimlogic.com.au, obrien@NUXI.com, giffunip@asme.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808200052.KAA04049@cimlogic.com.au> (message from John Birrell on Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:52:13 +1000 (EST)) Subject: Re: rayshade port From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * I'l supposed to find a procedure that will give people a smooth transition * to elf. Just throwing the switch and hoping for the best isn't good * enough. I have to at least try first. 8-) Sorry I wasn't clear enough. There are two issues here, one is to not break stuff that's already installed on the users' systems, and the others are ports that need to be fixed to correctly generate ELF shared libraries. For the former, we should hash it out before the switch is thrown, of course. (I think moving them to subdirectories is good enough.) For the latter, we need time before the release to fix them, and that's why I'm hoping the transition is soon. Remember, we need to support both a.out (2.2*) and ELF systems for quite a while, so our transition is not going to be very easy either. :< Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message