From e9aba5096de7577bef5264551955384c2cbb3c2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Enji Cooper Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:49:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document caveat with specifying WITHOUT_VI at build/install time when building older releases of FreeBSD --- UPDATING | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 0d20173c61e..4611da5caa2 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -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