From: "Nikola Lečić" <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net>
To: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD binaries - was: Systemwide installation does not work
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 02:13:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201610192313.u9JNDeuC058378@anthesphoria.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BDA5FEA7-7D0E-4B57-AAAD-68B15BB14D23@cea.fr>
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:55:30 -0600
in <BDA5FEA7-7D0E-4B57-AAAD-68B15BB14D23@cea.fr>
Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:
> Mailing list:
>
> There was some fluctuation in the FreeBSD binaries being distributed
> on contextgarden.net.
>
> With the recent introduction of FreeBSD 11.0, the GPL3-tainted GNU
> libstdc++ has been dropped in favor of a new, clean libc++. This
> follows on the switch from gcc to clang that took place with the
> introduction of FreeBSD 10.0. As a result, the new binaries compiled
> on FreeBSD 11.0 failed to work on older systems, i.e. FreeBSD 9.3
> (still in production/supported). We now take care to provide binaries
> compiled under FreeBSD 9.3 on the garden, at least until this version
> gets phased-out at the end of the year.
According to my experience, an official EOL rarely means the end of
real-world use. FWIW, I'd stick with 9.X for a while.
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Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић
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2016-10-18 15:02 Roger Mason
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2016-10-18 18:00 ` Roger Mason
2016-10-18 21:55 ` FreeBSD binaries - was: " Alan Braslau
2016-10-19 23:13 ` Nikola Lečić [this message]
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