Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:56:57 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which ports use C++? Message-ID: <20050317175657.GS91771@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <42390B81.4080009@raad.tartu.ee> References: <42388091.5060103@raad.tartu.ee> <20050316200949.GF91771@hub.freebsd.org> <42390B81.4080009@raad.tartu.ee>
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 06:45:53AM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:53:05PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote:
> >
> >>Or should I more or less expect that I need to rebuild *all* the ports
> >>anyway?
> >
> >That's best; there are other incompatibilities that are there when you
> >have old (compiled on 5.2) versions of a library and you try and
> >compile new software against them on 5.3.
>
> OK. But just to make sure I understand it right - does this mean that if
> I upgrade to 5.3, then those ports that depend on some incompatible
> library or are written in C++ do not work until they are recompiled?
>
> I'm aware that some of the library upgrades can be overcome with
> /etc/libmap.conf, but apparently this doesn't get it all.
Correct on both counts.
Kris
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