Why central builds are performed on 10.1 with broken/different compared to 10,3 compiler?

Kurt Jaeger lists at opsec.eu
Sat Jun 18 17:20:05 UTC 2016


Hi!

> There are two questions:
> 1. Why clang36 works differently on 10.1 and 10.3?

Good question. Additional patches went into 10.3, probably ?

> 2. Should 10.3 be used for central builds then?

For a major release, the ports are always build using the oldest
supported minor release, because in general, the binaries are
binary compatible with newer releases, but sometimes not the
other way around.

https://www.freebsd.org/ says:

Production: 10.3, 10.1, 9.3

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