Date: 14 Dec 1997 19:46:45 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with gzip'd executables Message-ID: <864t4brcdm.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:01:13 -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213193041.20991D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> <199712141701.JAA19447@austin.polstra.com>
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John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> writes: > I think you're right -- it's related to my recent dynamic linker > changes. Actually it's caused not by my original changes, but by the > work-around I put in later for the emacs bug. Sigh. > > I'll try to do something to make it work again. I really don't > want to abandon the changes entirely if I can avoid it. Being able > to debug from core dumps is too big of a win. However, I may have > to back out my changes temporarily in order to buy time to fix the > problems that have been cropping up. Personally, I feel that you should just drop the hacks to handle old emacs binaries and send a clear heads-up to current@FreeBSD.ORG. Current is for developers - we should have the hardware to handle an Emacs re-compile :-) Eivind.
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