Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:02:06 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: palm/pilot-link needs to be fixed for matherr change (was Re: matherr disappeared?) Message-ID: <20050214030206.GB47695@VARK.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <1108348247.26515.17.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1108344209.2954.2.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20050214020127.GA44039@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <1108348247.26515.17.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2005, Sean McNeil wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:01 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:23:29PM -0800, Sean McNeil wrote: > > > I was refreshing my system and do not know when this happened, but this > > > same port use to work: > > > > > > /usr/ports/palm/pilot-link/work/pilot-link-0.11.8/bindings/Tcl/tclAppInit.c:53: undefined reference to `matherr' > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > > See the thread and you should read freebsd-current list. > > First of all, I do read current as I am subscribed. > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-February/046426.html > > Finally, that thread is related to tcl 8.0.5 for i386. I had no reason > to suspect it had anything to do with my situation as I have an amd64 > system with tcl-8.4.7 which compiled without any issue. Perhaps I > simply deleted it since I am not using i386. > > So, the answer to my question is yes and matherr has disappeared. > However, it would appear that this is related to the previous thread so > I have changed the subject line and I'm CCing das. He had asked to be > notified if anything else breaks. Yeah, as I understand it, versions of Tcl released between 1993 and 2002 had a kludge to force old versions of SunOS to dynamically link against the right version of libm; however, they don't actually *use* matherr() in any meaningful way. Unfortunately, N different ports have copied the hack. I'll try to fix all the ones that are reported to me next weekend. > P.S. Aren't changes like that suppose to go in UPDATING? Well, I didn't think I would be breaking POLA too badly. matherr() was deprecated some time in the mid-1980's when the third edition of the System V Interface Definition was published. Moreover, FreeBSD never actually supported it; we just had a stub there in libm. If it causes too much trouble, I'll have to put it back so applications can continue to pretend that it works.home | help
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