From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 01:16:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5001065674 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 01:16:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35CD38FC18 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 01:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg11 with SMTP id 11so5046490pvg.13 for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:15:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=JU6xYvRTghbRrbmDRRKf1z5VO7cCb1jxz3siqcVKHpU=; b=bOtoumuAfEA0o3YyiUrbUoxYtO/q5ayY3zi7Fwi8gTwNixb1jE1EnYesyxWDhrUy1D fTk+PEGN89EP7WFtsAnNXNi/hAG2vSf6C+gUqnSTl0lVauMU/JMjUwVpJaAt+EqwCZwr FZmfglZq3eavk4fG15jLoms4b5Y6Q6S7JfQLk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.63.36 with SMTP id d4mr5799988pbs.223.1309655759663; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:15:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.64.104 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 18:15:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <19983.43472.728768.889910@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <19983.43472.728768.889910@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 01:15:59 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: Robert Huff Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi Subject: Re: What is xz ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:16:00 -0000 On 7/2/11, Robert Huff wrote: > > b. f. writes: > >> > It is part of '7.2-RELEASE', Dunno about 7.1 >> >> Hmm. Are you sure? If this is true, the archivers/xz port needs >> to be patched to IGNORE those branches of 7 that have xz. > > Is that necessarily true? > For comparison: the default system compiler is gcc-4.2.1 (I > believe). There are several higher numbered versions in ports. You mean, if xz is actually in FreeBSD 7, which doesn't seem to be the case, is it absolutely necessary to disable builds of archivers/xz on 7? Or, for that matter, on 8 and 9? -- well, no, it isn't strictly necessary, but what's the point of not disabling the port when the same version of xz is in both the base system and the port, and rtld's default search pattern will favor the former over the latter? With the different versions of gcc, you are at least getting some functional differences. If naddy updates the port to 5.1.1 or 5.0.3, the case might be different. b.