From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 1 11:45:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9BE15BA6 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 11:43:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11X7ej-0007QL-00; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:43:45 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA52645; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 20:43:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <37F500DB.C33AC10@scc.nl> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 20:43:39 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal References: <37F337CC.5E06911B@scc.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > How about this: early in make world, we check whether or not the > current kernel supports the new syscalls. If it does, good. If it > doesn't, we build and load a small module which installs syscalls > which translate the sigset_t stuff into something the old syscalls can > grok. Does that make sense to any of you guys? That has been proposed by someone (sorry, I can't remember who exactly). We still need a consensus as to what we should do. Personally, I now like to fix this at the core of the problem: truly support cross-compilations. This implies (IMO) that the source tree is never used to build the tools with which a world is built (ideally). Such a solution may take too long to be implemented to be used as a solution now, though. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message