Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:55:31 -0700 From: John Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update from 6 to 7 - needs libtool rebuild Message-ID: <18716.41555.397011.981079@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <44od0jtim2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <18716.24188.971858.627073@gromit.timing.com> <44od0jtim2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote at 16:35 -0500 on Nov 13, 2008: > John Hein <jhein@timing.com> writes: > > So my question is: is this documented and/or widely known? A full > > portupgrade wouldn't help if you were up to date on libtool in 6.x > > before updating (unless portupgrade -f is used). > > But you've *always* needed to rebuild *all* your ports when system > libraries got a version bump. Symbol versioning may make this less of > an issue in the future, but even then I'll be expecting to do it when I > make major version jumps. I often don't rebuild everything right away and live with the compat libs for a while. That has worked fine in the past (probably had some hiccups that I've long since forgotten about). But I understand why the official position is to rebuild everything. > > Would it be worth documenting this in UPDATING (if I haven't > > missed it somewhere)? > > It's in the release notes for every (I think) release. Other places > might make sense also, I guess... I don't see it at the moment (looking at 6.3's relnotes), but I didn't look too hard. Thanks for the answers.
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