From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 20:49:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4687C1065695; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:49:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3923203119; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E8387F6.7060709@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:47:50 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110928 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Beech Rintoul References: <20110926230335.041fd9aa@lab.lovett.com> <4E8377F1.7020906@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4E838127.5090601@FreeBSD.org> <201109281245.40015.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201109281245.40015.beech@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matt , Garrett Cooper , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, aakuusta@gmail.com, "Hartmann, O." Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:49:33 -0000 On 09/28/2011 13:45, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:18:47 Doug Barton wrote: >> On 09/28/2011 12:39, Hartmann, O. wrote: >>> The mess started to happen when I tried to "repair" a non CLANG >>> compiling port math/gotoblas with portmaster -vf amth/gotoblas. >>> Since this build binutils and even gettext and libiconv, I guess they >>> got broken. Last I saw was a successful installation report from >>> portmaster. But the libiconv.so.3 wasn't there anymore when I checked! >>> >>> This is a catastrophy ... >>> >>> I'm on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r225844 >> >> It's been widely reported on the ports list that you can't do fresh >> ports compiles on 10-current, and won't be able to until well after >> 9.0-RELEASE. The primary reason is that auto* stuff doesn't understand >> the 2-digit release version. >> >> Solutions are to set UNAME_r=9.0-CURRENT in your environment, and/or >> twiddle the version in newvers.sh and rebuild/reinstall your kernel. >> >> >> hth, >> >> Doug > > So if I change /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to something like vers 9.9 I'm not > going to shoot myself in the foot if I try and update? I would really like to > avoid downgrading this box.I've altready been bitten once today and had to > build packages on my tindy and force install. That should be the case, yes. I haven't tested it yet myself. If you do, and it works, let us know and I'll write the UPDATING entry if no one else does. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/