Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:41:15 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, subbsd <subbsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: library compat for FreeBSD7x Message-ID: <20090723104115.GB26926@megatron.madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <20090723100548.GA23481@ei.bzerk.org> References: <200907231302.34000.subbsd@gmail.com> <20090723093217.GA26926@megatron.madpilot.net> <20090723100548.GA23481@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:05:48PM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:32:17AM +0200, Guido Falsi typed: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:02:33PM +0400, subbsd wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > after the bump version on FreeBSD8-Beta2, some application needs for old > > > library. But misc/compat7x ports not found for this. It still not ready? > > > thanks! > > > > You'll have to rempile all ports anyway. > > Erm, doesn't that defeat the whole point of having compat* libraries? The problem is that while a single port directly depending on a compat library may work indefinitely this way, you'll have many problems when you mix and match ports depending on libraries from other ports, mixing ld and new libraries dependancies. I never used the compat bits, but I really think they are there for software you have just in binary form, and no way to recompile. If recompiling all ports is problematic just wait a few days and uupdate using packages... -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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