HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT

[Beech Rintoul]

On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:47:50 Doug Barton wrote:
> On 09/28/2011 13:45, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:18:47 Doug Barton wrote:
> >> On 09/28/2011 12:39, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> >>> The mess started to happen when I tried to "repair" a non CLANG
> >>> compiling port math/gotoblas with portmaster -vf amth/gotoblas.
> >>> Since this build binutils and even gettext and libiconv, I guess they
> >>> got broken. Last I saw was a successful installation report from
> >>> portmaster. But the libiconv.so.3 wasn't there anymore when I checked!
> >>> 
> >>> This is a catastrophy ...
> >>> 
> >>> I'm on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r225844
> >> 
> >> It's been widely reported on the ports list that you can't do fresh
> >> ports compiles on 10-current, and won't be able to until well after
> >> 9.0-RELEASE. The primary reason is that auto* stuff doesn't understand
> >> the 2-digit release version.
> >> 
> >> Solutions are to set UNAME_r=9.0-CURRENT in your environment, and/or
> >> twiddle the version in newvers.sh and rebuild/reinstall your kernel.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> hth,
> >> 
> >> Doug
> > 
> > So if I change /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to something like vers 9.9
> > I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot if I try and update? I would
> > really like to avoid downgrading this box.I've altready been bitten once
> > today and had to build packages on my tindy and force install.
> 
> That should be the case, yes. I haven't tested it yet myself. If you do,
> and it works, let us know and I'll write the UPDATING entry if no one
> else does.

No problem, I'm building now. Any suggestions as to what port I should try 
after the reboot?

Beech
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