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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: libc shlib version
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John Polstra wrote:
> 
> In article <vqcsnoxszs1.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>,
> Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> >  * From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
> >
> >  * In article <200011120651.eAC6paj79972@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>,
> >  * Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> >  *
> >  * > It was brought to my attention that recent 40upgrade kills all the
> >  * > networking programs.  Looking at the plists, the only thing I can
> >  * > think of is that libc.so.4 has somehow lost backward compatibility.
> >  *
> >  * This isn't much to go on.  What are the symptoms?
> >
> > I don't know much either, as I haven't experienced it myself.  The
> > reports say core dumps from fetch, etc.  Please see PR #21997.
> 
> OK, all those failures are signal 12 == SIGSYS == non-existent signal
> call.  Somebody must have made a change to libc which caused it to
> start using a signal call that didn't exist in 4.0-RELEASE.  So yes,
> I suppose that the version number of libc should be bumped.  Likewise
> for libc_r, if it hasn't already been bumped for this release.  What a
> pain -- that means yet another compatxx distribution.

Why not find what was added and back it out?  Aren't we going to
need yet another version bump for 5.0?

-- 
Dan Eischen


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