shuttlebox wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dennis Peterson <denni...@inetnw.com> wrote: >> Updating ncurses involves a lot of regression testing with existing >> applications >> and perhaps rebuilding some or all of then and I don't care to do that until >> I >> do a server refresh later this year so I'm stuck with 5.4 for now. > > Is there a reason you build everything yourself?
Yes. I get to control the configure options when I do the builds. > Even if you need > something specific you could build it against a software stack like > the one at www.opencsw.org. For example, we have ncurses 5.7. > Updating ncurses is easily done using SunFreeWare, too, but I have to check all the applications that are linked to it to ensure there are no surprises. It's the same issue of upgrading the GCC libraries, OpenSSL, BerkeleyDB, PHP, etc. There are a lot of dependencies that have to be validated before throwing that switch. dp _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
