5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

Helge Oldach helge.oldach at atosorigin.com
Thu Aug 24 04:07:56 UTC 2006


Chuck Swiger:
>FreeBSD's COMPAT stuff will let you run binaries  
>compiled against an older version of FreeBSD just fine for almost all  
>circumstances.  However, as soon as you try to install a new port  
>which depends on something already installed, or upgrade anything,  
>you pretty much really need to upgrade *everything* to be sure that  
>you don't compile new executables which depend on a mixture of COMPAT  
>and current libraries...

Yep. Also beware of "make delete-old" and "make delete-old-libs", and
ports that build differently depending on the OS version...

Helge


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