FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 available

Mike Edenfield kutulu at kutulu.org
Tue Oct 5 17:09:46 PDT 2004


Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> 
> Whoa ... ok, so:
> 
> ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/* | grep libm.so.2
> 
> alone shows that quite a lot on my box is going to need rebuilding ... I 

I would suspect that any port which performs any significant 
functions, especially graphical functions, will need to be 
rebuilt.  It would be safer to just do what you suggested 
and `portupgrade -af`.

As for libmap.conf, the format is basically:

oldlib			newlib

so there would be a single like that looks like this:

libm.so.2		libm.so.3

However, I initially thought this wouldn't work.  I thought 
it only worked if the interfaces for the two libraries were 
identical -- but if the interfaces were identical, why the 
need for a library version bump?  But several people have 
suggested it so I guess it couldn't hurt.

--Mike


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