-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jose,
Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > Hi > Building a samba package in a recent RELENG_7 box and install on a > 7.1-RELEASE system I found ABI changes that make ldconfig fail. > > This is related to a new strndup symbol in libc that samba build autodetect > and use. This is really necesary? The only way to guarantee a package is usable under 7.1-RELEASE is to build it under a 7.1-RELEASE chroot or jail, when building it on a newer host system. That's said, we strive our best to maintain backward compatibility, i.e. make sure that newer FreeBSD versions would always run older binaries; we do want to keep some sort of upward compatibility, for instance, when you build a binary on newer FreeBSD version, it's *likely* that it can be run on older FreeBSD version, but this is not strictly guaranteed or we can not add any new functionalities into new FreeBSD versions. I personally feel very strongly against of not having a POSIX-defined libc function just because older 7.x does not have it, unless we want the whole 7.x branch to be EoL'ed soon. Cheers, - -- Xin LI <delp...@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkneeYgACgkQi+vbBBjt66CUlwCeJINd92n72WiiV1fBkwR6Oisp KCkAoMDxWdNd3r1654Vddf+ZFmOILrH0 =wJnZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
