Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:07:46 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: jb@cimlogic.com.au Cc: ggm@dstc.edu.au, jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3 days to E-day Message-ID: <199808281407.HAA25052@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808280106.LAA09471@cimlogic.com.au> (message from John Birrell on Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:06:19 %2B1000 (EST))
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* From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> * A recipe in one line: Give ports people time to work through the issues. Thanks. :) * In more than one line: If you're one of those ports people, you'll have * to try building the ports you maintain to find out what needs munging. * Satoshi has asked for the elf switch to thrown sooner rather than later * to give people as much time as possible to work on making ports elf * aware. If you're discouraged by this, you don't need to convert to elf * straight away, however you should be aware that as the ports are modified, * elf will be the only supported format on 3.0-CURRENT and 3.0-RELEASE. * If you want to keep using aout ports, you'll have to use 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 * when it is released. Clarification. There will only be ELF *packages* in 3.0R (and packages-current from E-day on -- Justin, do you want to run one final build of a.out packages before you throw the switch?). However, *ports* will continue to support both a.out and ELF worlds. This is because the ports tree is shared between 2.2 and 3.0 branches. Thus, after E-day, as ports are converted, you should be able to build either a.out or ELF packages on your -current system. Note the "as ports are converted" in the previous paragraph. We have no idea how long it will take for us to fix all the ports (or even only the important ones). There are too many of them that create shared libraries and there's just not enough time before the release. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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