On Saturday 21 October 2006 00:55, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > We base the FreeBSD binaries on 4.10-RELEASE-p2. Would it make > sense to support 6.x as well? If so, we need a binary of > the c library to bootstrap the build
Version 4 is about as far back as any updates go into FreeBSD right now. 5 is considered old and 6.1 is recommended to users. Look forward to 6.2 (estimated by mid November) as the new 'Release' version: Releases are intended as the most stable workplace for people who want to use something tha works, not as a place to try out the latest new code and bugtest. Months ago things improved in FreeBSD for the ports tree (a collection of makefiles and other files to help users get software installed) which should make porting a newer version of lilypond relatively easy. Libtool was one place I remember trouble in getting the port working right, even when I could compile otherwise. If the port can be made, then package creation should be little more than commands in the ports tree. I will have to take another stab at it again in the very near future. The current version in ports in 2.2.2 and the development version was removed a while back. Some work was done to update it by someone else, but I guess that did not go through with success. As for library versions, I know that multiple versions can coexist (and will do so until programs using old libraries are updated to the newer ones). I am not sure how using an older version is handled if it did not exist on the system already. As some of you out there likely know much better than I, care to clarify any library topics for me; I do accept pointing to documentation as help too. Ed Sutton _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
