From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 2 15:36:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F1937B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:36:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5206843E8A for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:36:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA2NaV6D072007; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:36:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:36:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Steve Kargl Cc: Mark Murray , Subject: Re: __sF In-Reply-To: <20021102233215.GA30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: <20021102183431.V35807-100000@sasami.jurai.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:15:09PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > This isn't the case for one piece of vendor software that I'm not allowed > > to talk about. > > See the new WANT_COMPAT4_STDIO make.conf knob. This won't be acceptable as the vender will likely not be producing a separate 5.0 build (ie the same build needs to run on both.) until 4.x is EOLed. Forcing people to rebuild libc seems a high barrier to entry. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message