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Add some notes about symbol versioning and the switch to libthr.

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Daniel Eischen 2007-05-13 14:41:48 +00:00
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@ -21,6 +21,19 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 7.x IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance.
20070513:
Symbol versioning is enabled by default. To disable it, use
option WITHOUT_SYMVER. It is not advisable to attempt to
disable symbol versioning once it is enabled; your installworld
will break because a symbol version-less libc will get installed
before the install tools. As a result, the old install tools,
which previously had symbol dependencies to FBSD_1.0, will fail
because the freshly installed libc will not have them.
The default threading library has been changed to libthr. If
you wish to have libpthread as your default, use option
DEFAULT_THREAD_LIB=libpthread for the buildworld.
20070423:
The ABI breakage in sendmail(8)'s libmilter has been repaired
so it is no longer necessary to recompile mail filters (aka,