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Date:      Thu,  8 Apr 1999 22:27:32 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, asmodai@wxs.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os
Message-ID:  <14093.29000.147643.10859@zuhause.mn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904081223480.378-100000@picnic.mat.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904072109480.94006-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904081223480.378-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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Chuck Robey writes:
 > If that were true, but it's not.  Older versions of the config files and
 > libraries can very easily cause the ports to fail to build.  Every time
 > I upgrade stuff, I have to go about doing search and destroy on old
 > stuff.  On top of that, there are various mistakes in dependencies;
 > there's one lib (I forget which) which installs under one name, but all
 > of the dependencies on it are under another name.  The stuff seems to
 > change it's mind on whether it wants to install under /usr/local or
 > /usr/X11R6, so finding stuff is pretty complicated, and very dependent
 > on version, because the darn install dirs change, just to make things
 > worse.

I'll bet the library you're thinking of is libtix.  David O'Brien just 
committed fixes for it yesterday.


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