From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 24 20:26:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA23744 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 20:26:10 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA23738 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 20:26:07 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA05728; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 20:26:08 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id UAA00160; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 20:26:08 -0800 Message-Id: <199511250426.UAA00160@corbin.Root.COM> To: Chuck Robey cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: follow-up to kernel compile problem... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Nov 95 23:19:41 EST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 20:26:07 -0800 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >> >On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >[some deletions] > >> > >> It's not necessary to shut down to single user. It is a good idea if you do >> the 'make world' when the system is mostly idle, however, as unusual transient >> things might happen to the users during some phases of the build. > >Please, could you explain this? How come, if I'm changing my libc, I >don't have to go to single user? I know when I did current on version >1.1 it was needed, I believe you now, but I like to know why, what changed? Anything that is currently using the installed libraries will continue to use the old version. The old libraries are unlinked before the new copy is installed. I think back in 1.x days that install didn't do an unlink first, causing it to overwrite the in-use libraries. -DG