RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <200409060206.21145.michaelnottebrock at gmx.net>
            Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net> writes:
: On Monday 06 September 2004 01:27, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
: > Howdy--
: >
: > I've volunteered to rework the 5.X Early Adopters Guide into a Migration
: > Guide.  The focus of this document is less about discouraging unwary
: > users and more about what kinds of changes users might encounter when
: > they move from 4.X to 5.X.
: >
: > I'd like to solicit a pre-commit review on the document at:
: >
: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html
: 
: Nice document!
: 
: One thing I'm missing:
: 
: The pthread libraries change probably requires people to recompile things 
: linked to it if they're migrating from 4.x - users updating from 5.x-Releases 
: can get away with setting up libmap.conf (maybe this is true for updating 
: from 4.x as well, can some threads expert comment on it?).

You should recompile everything as part of this upgrade.  You can
still use libc_r on -current (I have binaries I'm still using and
haven't upgraded).  You should likely do so, as well as recompile C++
programs.

Warner