On 2008-May-13 08:33:03 -0700, Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Most all old 32 bit ports should work but upgrading them can
>mess things up.  All the new compiles will generate 64 bit
>binaries but any port dependencies on a shared library will
>be wrong.

It's actually somewhat worse than this: When compiling a new port with
dependencies, the internal foo_DEPENDS logic will detect the i386 .so
but the port's own configuration tools or build process will normally
die in interesting ways when they can't actually use that .so.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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