Do I really need to rebuilding *everything*

Mark admin at asarian-host.net
Sat Mar 20 22:38:32 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
To: "Rilindo Foster" <webmaster at monzell.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: Do I really need to rebuilding *everything*


> > Question is, can I get away with rebuilding my entire
> > ports collection? With about 300 apps complied, I really don't
> > want to do it. ;_;
>
> You only need to rebuild the ports that use the openssl libs and
> link statically.  My guess is that would be zero.

What do you mean? I built OpenSSL into everything; sendmail, Apache,
qpopper, stunnel, php4, mod_perl, etc. Close to the 300 of the original
poster. :) And like him, I really feel rather upset if I'd have to do it all
over again. Or are all of the above dynamically linked?

Thanks,

- Mark



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