Chuck Swiger: >FreeBSD's COMPAT stuff will let you run binaries >compiled against an older version of FreeBSD just fine for almost all >circumstances. However, as soon as you try to install a new port >which depends on something already installed, or upgrade anything, >you pretty much really need to upgrade *everything* to be sure that >you don't compile new executables which depend on a mixture of COMPAT >and current libraries...
Yep. Also beware of "make delete-old" and "make delete-old-libs", and ports that build differently depending on the OS version... Helge _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
