upgrade questions 4.10 -> 5-stable

[Brad Davis]

On Monday 20 September 2004 15:12, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> I thought I'd ask here...
>
> I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10, and would like to
> upgrade to a 5.x because of the superior jail support.
>
> Which version would you recommend for someone who's
> really interested in jail support, but doesn't like to
> live dangerously? Of my hardware, the only item of
> note is that I use FreeBSD 4.10's ehci driver for USB
> 2.0 devices.
>
> One of the notes in /usr/src/UPDATING was that GCC had
> been upgraded from my current 2.95 to 3.4 and there
> are known compatibility problems with the ABI (what's
> an ABI? the .so's?) Will this upgrade force me to
> recompile all of my existing C++ stuff, e.g. Postgres
> and PostGIS, or will my existing binaries continue to
> run?

You should wait for 5.3-RELEASE. You will have to recompile every application 
you use. A doc on upgrading from 4.x to 5.x should be along when 5.3 is 
released.


Regards,
Brad

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