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| author | ngie <ngie@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-02-11 07:49:00 +0000 |
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| committer | ngie <ngie@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-02-11 07:49:00 +0000 |
| commit | a4a0554ae67bfa40ba0109aee237d3b8c0844a35 (patch) | |
| tree | 99918ad8d1e3462c864d16b83a683aa4f06913e1 /UPDATING | |
| parent | 884afc8873c3ca92829d975b3e9cc0b09723fa8c (diff) | |
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Document caveat with specifying WITHOUT_VI at build/install time when building
older releases of FreeBSD
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@@ -292,6 +292,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 11.x IS SLOW: The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a standard device. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped. +20140424: + The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls + building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1) + in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a + build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for + build hosts for older releases. + + This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and + r276991, respectively. + 20140418: The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds |
