Re: Heads up: users of the netbsd-8 branch

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Martin Husemann wrote:

> If you are using NetBSD 8 BETA already, and are not updating from the
> official "daily" builds, please note:
>
> - The gcc internal specs have changed (rules for libgcc when building
>   shared binaries). This change requires a full build of ALL binaries
>   ever created with gcc 5.4.
>
> - Failure to do this might lead to strange/spurious fallout like we
>   saw in PRs 51266 and 52326.
>
> Please make sure to NOT do an update build next time when updating from
> source, and also rebuild ALL your pkgs.
>
> If you are upgrading by downloading new binary sets, it is enough to rebuild
> all your pkgs (or wait for new binary pkgs to become available).
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience,

I wish I would've noticed this earlier. I haven't been able to build
mysql on -current for days and rebuilding all my packages was what I
needed to do.

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