Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:27:07 -0500 From: Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.7 port requires libm.so.4 Message-ID: <20050830182707.GE29088@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <448xyjl28d.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20050828155958.GC24820@localhost.localdomain> <443borh8ai.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050830135342.GF25168@localhost.localdomain> <448xyjl28d.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:16:18PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> writes:
> > Hmm. I base my statement off the output from `uname -a`:
> > FreeBSD `hostname` 5.4-SECURITY FreeBSD 5.4-SECURITY #0: Wed Jul
> > 20 08:57:11 \ UTC 2005
> > root@builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> Sorry; I was confused. You were trying to run 6.x packages on a
> 5.x system, not the other way around.
Indulge a newb, then: how did that come about? I'm still figuring
out port and packages and how they relate to the different releases.
Do you mean that my portsnap'd ports tree is ~= 6.X and my system is
~=5.X? Is that inevitable? Is that a Bad Thing?
Thanks so much for your help!
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