FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 available

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:09:50PM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> 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.

The interfaces are not identical between 4.x and 5.x, but these
libraries previously had the same version.

Kris

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