From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 14 10:49:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA27962 for current-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:49:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA27946 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:49:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA10542; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 18:46:47 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id TAA13107; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:46:46 +0100 (MET) To: John Polstra Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with gzip'd executables References: <199712141701.JAA19447@austin.polstra.com> From: Eivind Eklund Date: 14 Dec 1997 19:46:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:01:13 -0800 Message-ID: <864t4brcdm.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Polstra 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.