>Number: 89257 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Previous version compatibility in 6.0 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 18 22:20:02 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: Fri Nov 18 22:57:43 GMT 2005 >Last-Modified: Mon Nov 21 21:40:17 GMT 2005 >Originator: Me >Release: FreeBSD 6.0 >Organization: My Co >Environment: >Description: It seems apps compiled against version 5.0 of FreeBSD are not compatible with 6.0 out of the box and to me this isn't good. I can still run windows applications written well over 15 years ago unmodified on my PC out of the box and without running through hoops. The "recompile defense" is unacceptable as the source code is not always avaliable and more importantly users must not be expected to care. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: maxim State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 18 22:56:15 GMT 2005 State-Changed-Why: It seems your PR has now technical details. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=89257 From: Kris Kennaway To: Me Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/89257: Previous version compatibility in 6.0 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:38:58 -0500 --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:14:58PM +0000, Me wrote: > It seems apps compiled against version 5.0 of FreeBSD are not > compatible with 6.0 out of the box and to me this isn't good. I can > still run windows applications written well over 15 years ago > unmodified on my PC out of the box and without running through > hoops. The "recompile defense" is unacceptable as the source code > is not always avaliable and more importantly users must not be > expected to care. Did you forget to install the compat5x libraries? Either way, this PR is quite incomplete since you forgot to give any details of your problem. Kris --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDgj5yWry0BWjoQKURAnSCAJ9wv8ZCMbiNnnKBXYroz87R4VQungCcDRH9 kvNHKUReHxkVGsJZdWujr88= =MNmS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko-- >Unformatted: Return-Path: Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86B316A41F for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:14:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.freebsd.org [216.136.204.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8CF43D49 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:14:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAIMEwrj060070 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:14:58 GMT (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jAIMEwtQ060064; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:14:58 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <200511182214.jAIMEwtQ060064@www.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:14:58 GMT From: Me To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Previous version compatibility in 6.0 X-Send-Pr-Version: www-2.3