Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 16:15:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning Message-ID: <l0313030bb195de7042c4@[208.2.87.10]> In-Reply-To: <199805292120.OAA14978@usr04.primenet.com> References: <199805282015.PAA01671@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at May 28, 98 03:15:44 pm
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At 9:20 PM -0000 5/29/98, Terry Lambert wrote: >It also means that one "ports" CDROM will work for FreeBSD 3.x and >FreeBSD 235.x. How can you make this claim? The individual ports may well rely on some feature of FreeBSD 235.x that was not present in FreeBSD 3.x. Similarly, a port for 3.x may rely on a feature that was removed before 5.0. As much as we might like to think otherwise, assumptions about the structure of the underlying OS and "hardcoded" into the source of the program. :-( Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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