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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 04:27:27 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Old port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol "__sF")
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:01:53AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Actually, this should only be required for old ports (older than some
> > > date which I don't know off-hand).  It might be easier to just rebuild
> > > everything though.
> >
> > This would be OK, if the X11 package came from the FreeBSD source
> > tree, instead of just as a binary on the CDROM (I hate that upgrading
> > a box breaks things... it should *never* break things, as long as you
> > don't tell it to remove old libraries).
> 
> If you can't deal with having to recompile things over the -current
> development cycle then don't run it.


Uh, the issue was the upcoming 5.0 release, which will cause these
same problems for people.

-- Terry

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