[tex-live] TeX Live & FreeBDS

[Edd Barrett]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>    > FreeBSD have very good ABI compatibility support.
>
> My recollection is that I was told that the version of every shared
> library was changed in every (minor) release, e.g., from version 20 to
> version 21.  So that distributing a binary that works on version X.Y is
> useless, because it will not run on X.Y+1, or X.Y-1, let alone anything
> more distant.

Library versions are bumped often in the BSD's and the major library
version must match in order for linking to be sucessful. FreeBSD
provides older base library versions in their compat packages, but
OpenBSD does not.

-- 
Best Regards
Edd Barrett

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