Two questions for FreeBSD 11: libgcc & pkg

[Matthieu Volat]

First, thanks for your time!

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:14:49 -0700
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Matthieu Volat <mazhe at alkumuna.eu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, if somebody would be kind enough to educate me, I've two small
> > questions about the 11 release.
> >
> >
> > First, https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD11 mention that libgcc
> > was replaced by libcompiler_rt, yet after the freebsd-update
> > upgrade/install/install/portmaster -af/install routine, I still have a
> > (recently updated) libgcc:
> >
> >   # ls -l /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
> >   -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  56608 Jul 26 14:13 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
> >
> > Is it normal?
> >  
> 
> I think so, but I am not sure. Is libcompiler_rt found? It seems likely the
> old library is retrained for existing images linked to it while
> libcompiler_rt is now used when new images are linked. (N.B. This is a
> guess, though.)

Things are a bit strange: there is a  static libcompiler_rt library in /usr/lib. A few executable in /usr/bin seems to still use libgcc (groff/troff stuff mainly). So maybe this is still in a transitional stage... Base cc/c+++ seems to be sane since I managed to rebuild all the installed ports.

> 
> 
> > Second question is about the talks that the base system would be
> > pkg-ized (https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase). Do base pkgs share the same
> > pkg database as ports pkgs? Can I now damage base installation with bad pkg
> > usage?
> >  
> 
> I don't have the message handy, but several issues popped up that forced
> the delay if the packaging of teh base system until at least 11.1. You can
> probably look in the current@ archive to find the note.

Thanks, I was not sure I did not miss some pre-release instruction to migrate settings as nothing would show up in pkg info and such.

> 
> 
> > Thanks a lot for answers!
> >
> > --
> > Matthieu Volat <mazhe at alkumuna.eu>
> >  
> --
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