Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:45:53 +0200 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which ports use C++? Message-ID: <42390B81.4080009@raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <20050316200949.GF91771@hub.freebsd.org> References: <42388091.5060103@raad.tartu.ee> <20050316200949.GF91771@hub.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:53:05PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > >>Or should I more or less expect that I need to rebuild *all* the ports >>anyway? > > That's best; there are other incompatibilities that are there when you > have old (compiled on 5.2) versions of a library and you try and > compile new software against them on 5.3. OK. But just to make sure I understand it right - does this mean that if I upgrade to 5.3, then those ports that depend on some incompatible library or are written in C++ do not work until they are recompiled? I'm aware that some of the library upgrades can be overcome with /etc/libmap.conf, but apparently this doesn't get it all.
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