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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: ports/3924: de.spinne-1.0.1
In-Reply-To: <8048.867526785@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 28, 97 12:39:45 pm"
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> > BTW, at this FTP-server there are two packages for the XView library.
> > They are built on my machine (-current) and seem to work well in
> > -current and FreeBSD 2.2.x. They are a prerequisite for spinne!
> 
> Can they be built from ports?  That is to say, is this just a bug
> in the distributed packages?

I knew where the bug is, I would have fixed it! :-(

What I do know is:

The packages built from the ports on a current system will work on
2.2.x and on -current.
The packages built from the ports on a 2.2.x system will neither work
on 2.2.x nor on -current.

At least thats how it looks.

Wolfgang