Daniel Eischen wrote: >>I feel that a FreeBSD that manages to break so many existing configure-scripts >>and build systems is degraded in usefulness. > > Please, this is -current. If you want less pain then stick > with -stable and you won't be annoyed by the -pthread removal. Perhaps I should make it clear that, personally, I'm NOT very much annoyed. I know my way around in ports_at_, I actually do know what -CURRENT means and I have no problem with using the ports-collection exclusively instead of quickly compiling my own stuff right there in my user-account. The problem is just that this -CURRENT is supposed to be -STABLE rather soon, as we all know (I think the RE status for HEAD is 'Semi-Frozen', too). There are many users out there with 5.1-Release installed which have at best only a very distant clue about the fact they're running an "early adopter's release" and they won't be upgrading to 4.9-R or 4.10-R when the time arrives. For someone coming from 5.0-R or 5.1-R, the new "necessary evil behaviour" of cc/c++, be it -pedantic or -pthread, will be totally unexpected. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi_at_freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.orgReceived on Wed Sep 10 2003 - 14:53:04 UTC
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