Do you need to rebuild ports after 7-Current upgrade?
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 18 15:39:22 PDT 2007
Brent Jones wrote:
> Good morning -
>
> After a 6.2 to 7-Current FreeBSD upgrade, do you need to rebuild your
> ports?
Yes (as with any major release upgrade). Old binaries will continue to
work, but if you ever plan to compile a new port you will have to
rebuild your existing ports first, because otherwise you'll be linking
together 6.x and 7.x libraries in the same binary, which is a recipe for
sadness.
Kris
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