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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:28:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
cc: Eric Ken Lin <elin@orion.ac.hmc.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Help! I'm having ELF interpreter problems 
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On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Brian Somers wrote:

> > Don't download ports from ports/, use ports-stable/.
> > 
> > The ports/ ports are ELFed for 3.0.
> 
> They should continue to work for pre-3.0-RELEASE systems though.

I've run into ports that aren't backwards-compatible, I think.  If you
want an example I'll try to find one.

Doug White                               
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