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Date:      Tue, 12 May 1998 11:28:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        jbryant@unix.tfs.net
Cc:        ben@stuyts.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Undefined symbol "___error"
Message-ID:  <199805121828.LAA03211@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805121547.KAA03044@unix.tfs.net> from Jim Bryant at "May 12, 98 10:47:03 am"

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According to Jim Bryant:
>>> has this problem been fixed?
>> 
>> The only solution is to recompile less. From what I understand there has  
>> been an incompatible change in libc, and no version no increase of the
>> shared lib.
>> 
>> After I recompiled trafshow, it ran fine.
> 
> this has got to be one of the most damnned inconvenient changes i
> have ever seen freebsd take...
> 
> does this mean that ALL third party programs that use curses MUST be
> recompiled?!?!?!

The answer is probably "yes".

> just because, as i understand it, they didn't want to bump the lib
> version numbers?!?!?!

The version number can be bumped once per release, and that bump will
probably occur sometime prior to the release of FreeBSD-3.0.

> 
> does anyone realize how much this change breaks????!!!!
> 

Does someone know the meaning of "-current"?  If someone isn't
prepared to recompile seemingly broken apps, then don't run -current.
If 3rd party software is critical, then run an official release of
FreeBSD or the -stable branch.  See the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org
about who should be running -current.

-- 
Steve

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