Please, do not top post. It loses context. On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 04:05:27PM -0400, Joe Nosay wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Steve Kargl < > s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Joe Nosay wrote: > > > Is the ALPHA base stable enough to do porting of applications? > > > > > > > Huh? What do you mean? People have been running freebsd-current > > for years and porting applications to FreeBSD. Alpha is simply > > a point in time for freebsd-current. > > I was rebuilding world using an older CURRENT base and the src from > 10/07/13. The build kept breaking with libiconv, msun, and a few others.
The problem you had with msun was caused by you adding additional options to CFLAGS in make.conf without actually understand what those options may do. > This affected both the base and 3rd party. The system is still usable but > it isn't stable enough for building a 3rd party application. Yes, it is stable enough. Remove your custom CFLAG options. > If I reinstall the base with CURRENT from 10/07/13 to present, will > it be stable enough for building 3rd party? Of course. But, you need to read src/UPDATING and ports/UPDATING. -- Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
