FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

[Johan Hendriks]

George Kontostanos schreef:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Andriy Gapon<avg at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> on 13/01/2012 11:59 Doug Barton said the following:
>>> On 01/13/2012 01:52, George Kontostanos wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, George Kontostanos
>>>> <gkontos.mail at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> Greetings all and my apologies for cross posting!
>>>>>
>>>>> There seems to be a confusion regarding the ABI change in FreeBSD 9
>>>>> and if this affects the usual upgrade path which includes a full port
>>>>> rebuild.
>>>>>
>>>>> The relevant post is here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28831
>>>>>
>>>>> Frankly, I am also confused because I remember a relevant discussion a
>>>>> few months ago in the lists. Traditionally a major RELEASE upgrade
>>>>> requires a full ports rebuild, however this time there is no
>>>>> COMPAT_FREEBSD8 in GENERIC and most upgraded systems seem to be
>>>>> working fine. On the other hand this is stated in UPDATING:
>>>>>
>>>>> 20110828:
>>>>>         Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that
>>>>>         do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared
>>>>>         to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped.
>>>>>         Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your input would be appreciated!
>>>> Hmm, anyone :) ?
>>> If your question is, "Do I need to rebuild my ports when doing a major
>>> OS version upgrade?" the answer is always "Yes."
>>>
>>> The method described at the end of the portmaster man page is preferred,
>>> whether you actually use portmaster to do the upgrade or not. (I.e.,
>>> good backups, delete everything, start over from scratch.)
>> I think that another part of the question was "why there is no COMPAT_FREEBSD8
>> kernel option in 9?" and I think that Volodymyr has tried to answer this part
>> with another question.
>>
>> --
>> Andriy Gapon
> Hi guys,
>
> I am aware of the proper procedure which requires a full rebuild after
> a major upgrade.
>
> Doug, the question had to to with  COMPAT_FREEBSD8 missing from GENERIC.
>
> It seems this and the fact that some upgrades from 8.2-STABLE worked
> fine without a recompile, has created the confusion.
>
>
Did he do make delete-old-libs, if you leave them, then no recompile is 
needed, and the ports still have there old libs laying around.!
If you do the make delete-old-libs command, your ports do not work anymore.

regards
Johan Hendriks