On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, George Kontostanos
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings all and my apologies for cross posting!
>
> There seems to be a confusion regarding the ABI change in FreeBSD 9
> and if this affects the usual upgrade path which includes a full port
> rebuild.
>
> The relevant post is here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28831
>
> Frankly, I am also confused because I remember a relevant discussion a
> few months ago in the lists. Traditionally a major RELEASE upgrade
> requires a full ports rebuild, however this time there is no
> COMPAT_FREEBSD8 in GENERIC and most upgraded systems seem to be
> working fine. On the other hand this is stated in UPDATING:
>
> 20110828:
>        Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that
>        do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared
>        to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped.
>        Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle.
>
> Your input would be appreciated!
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> George Kontostanos
> Aicom telecoms ltd

Hmm, anyone :) ?
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