library compat for FreeBSD7x

[Guido Falsi]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:05:48PM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:32:17AM +0200, Guido Falsi typed:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:02:33PM +0400, subbsd wrote:
> > > Hello, 
> > > 
> > > after the bump version on FreeBSD8-Beta2, some application needs for old 
> > > library. But misc/compat7x ports not found for this. It still not ready? 
> > > thanks!
> > 
> > You'll have to rempile all ports anyway.
> 
> Erm, doesn't that defeat the whole point of having compat* libraries?

The problem is that while a single port directly depending on a compat
library may work indefinitely this way, you'll have many problems when
you mix and match ports depending on libraries from other ports, mixing
ld and new libraries dependancies.

I never used the compat bits, but I really think they are there for
software you have just in binary form, and no way to recompile.

If recompiling all ports is problematic just wait a few days and uupdate
using packages...

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>