From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 30 17:15:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A0515263 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40357>; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:12:31 +1000 Content-return: prohibited Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:15:34 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed In-reply-to: <199910010003.RAA09834@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> To: Don Lewis Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Message-Id: <99Oct1.101231est.40357@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <199910010003.RAA09834@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 01, 1999, you wrote: >On Sep 30, 4:14pm, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >} Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed >} > >} > In this particular case, the only thing cross-compilation would buy us >} > is the ability to build (but not install) 4.x binaries on a machine >} > running 3.x. It sounds like some folks would be satisfied just having >} > that. >} >} I'm sorry, this is easy to fix... have a set of tools you copy to /ibin >} that are used for the install (all staticly compiled binaries hopefully) >} and run the install world out of /ibin... maybe include some binaries >} for system recovery to make sure... > >... but as soon as you run the stuff in /ibin to install the new userland, >you won't even be able to run a shell script, because the newly installed >/bin/sh will be using the new signal syscalls. No, all it means is that the tools to install the new userland need to have special shellscripts with '#!/ibin/sh' or similar, or be explicitly invoked (eg /ibin/sh foo). I don't think this is a real problem. Peter -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Alcatel Australia Limited 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5982 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message