[M3devel] Installation difficulties in FreeBSD 8.1 x86

[Michael Richter]

Of course about ten seconds after I post this I find the "compat<n>x"
packages in ports.  Teaches me to look for full words in names!

Please disregard the earlier message.  ;)

On 22 August 2010 23:49, Michael Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 August 2010 22:43, Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com> wrote:
>
>> AFAIK FreeBSD always offered so-called compatibility distributions,
>> which contain all old libraries of previous systems. You should be
>> able to install these with the FreeBSD installer and then run cm3
>> and build your own binary which uses the up-to-date libs.
>>
>
> I'm looking at FreeBSD.org and I'm not seeing anything like that at all.
>  Sysintall doesn't offer anything like that under "distributions" either.
>  Sorry for being such a newb here, but I really have no idea where to even
> LOOK for the next step.
>
>
> --
> "Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions
> of entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese
> people. It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."
> --Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.
>



-- 
"Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions of
entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese people.
It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."
--Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.
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