Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:40:46 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: will@csociety.org Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/gd Makefile pkg-comment Message-ID: <200201220340.g0M3enQ53348@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20020121155530.V18609@squall.waterspout.com>
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On 21 Jan, Will Andrews wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:18:52PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: >> This is not true. The book DOES NOT require the library numbers in >> LIB_DEPENDS. (BTW, the book is a guide -- it explains how things are, >> rather than insisting, how they must be.) > > You do know that libraries undergo source and binary incompatible > changes over time, right? Did you check to make sure that your ports > will not be affected by these? Yes -- for the foreseable future. We are talking source incompatibility only, btw. If such incompatibility is introduced, it will break the building of a port. This breakage will signal the need for a fix. However, such breakages will not be happening nearly as often as those, caused by the library major number bump (which is supposed to mean binary incompatibility, AFAIU). -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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