[tex-live] TeX Live & FreeBDS

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:50, Edd Barrett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Karl Berry 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.

Hello Edd,

thanks a lot for explanation. In that case - Karl, may I ask for
including the FreeBSD binaries back into SVN repository once the
official TL  release is behind you?

Thanks a lot,
    Mojca