Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:35:01 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: John Hein <jhein@timing.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update from 6 to 7 - needs libtool rebuild Message-ID: <44od0jtim2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <18716.24188.971858.627073@gromit.timing.com> (John Hein's message of "Thu\, 13 Nov 2008 10\:06\:04 -0700") References: <18716.24188.971858.627073@gromit.timing.com>
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John Hein <jhein@timing.com> writes: > So my question is: is this documented and/or widely known? A full > portupgrade wouldn't help if you were up to date on libtool in 6.x > before updating (unless portupgrade -f is used). But you've *always* needed to rebuild *all* your ports when system libraries got a version bump. Symbol versioning may make this less of an issue in the future, but even then I'll be expecting to do it when I make major version jumps. > Would it be worth documenting this in UPDATING (if I haven't > missed it somewhere)? It's in the release notes for every (I think) release. Other places might make sense also, I guess...
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