From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 21 20:21:48 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from chmls20.mediaone.net (chmls20.mediaone.net [24.147.1.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFDF37B404; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from photoniii (h0005025b549e.ne.mediaone.net [66.31.5.199]) by chmls20.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g0M4N2x23170; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:23:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:27:10 -0500 From: Tadayuki OKADA To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: will@csociety.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/gd Makefile pkg-comment Message-Id: <20020121232710.711cd51d.tadayuki@mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <200201220340.g0M3enQ53348@aldan.algebra.com> References: <20020121155530.V18609@squall.waterspout.com> <200201220340.g0M3enQ53348@aldan.algebra.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:40:46 -0500 (EST) Mikhail Teterin wrote: > 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. You can break binary compatibility without breaking source compatibility. And it's not rare case. > > 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 -- Tadayuki OKADA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message