In D24572#543344, @jrm wrote:

I build tested everything and it all looks fine. Unless you have concrete objections, I am going to go ahead and commit this. @rhurlin_gwdg.de, I think the library versions we are making up are somewhat arbitrary in this case, since, after a long discussion with upstream, they do not really intend for them to be share libraries, but dynamically loaded. We are bumping dependencies manually, so I think things are fine. If you have other reasons that I am missing, we can always adapt later.

I actually put the note right after the statement it's clarifying:

Only the PDF output is screwy and I can verify using the HTML, so I'll go ahead with the commit shortly. I made one small change, adding a note to inform the reader why we should change the Ethernet MAC rather than the WiFi:

In the resulting text:

I'm trying to build-test per https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/overview.html and I'm getting nothing but '#' symbols for the text. Anybody seen this issue before?

Didn't know that was possible. I'm going to be swamped for the next week or two, but I'll look into it ASAP after that.

I'm currently only a ports committer, so this will have to fall on someone else.

Barring any typos that escaped my notice, looks fine to me. Thanks for your work on this!