From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jun  7 19:33:08 2007
Return-Path: <owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B6616A468;
	Thu,  7 Jun 2007 19:33:08 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org)
Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAB613C4B0;
	Thu,  7 Jun 2007 19:33:08 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org)
Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196])
	by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2E91A4D80;
	Thu,  7 Jun 2007 12:33:09 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5])
	by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B2451492;
	Thu,  7 Jun 2007 14:17:17 -0400 (EDT)
Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001)
	id 8D76DC207; Thu,  7 Jun 2007 14:17:17 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:17:17 -0400
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
Message-ID: <20070607181717.GB27572@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References: <200705311307.l4VD7cjR044688@repoman.freebsd.org>
	<20070607220155.4ff2a59d.stas@FreeBSD.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20070607220155.4ff2a59d.stas@FreeBSD.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i
Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org,
	src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org,
	Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/quad Symbol.map
X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree <cvs-all.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all>,
	<mailto:cvs-all-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all>
List-Post: <mailto:cvs-all@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:cvs-all-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all>,
	<mailto:cvs-all-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:33:08 -0000

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:01:55PM +0400, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007 13:07:37 +0000 (UTC)
> Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org> mentioned:
> 
> > deischen    2007-05-31 13:07:37 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     lib/libc/quad        Symbol.map 
> >   Log:
> >   Export quad symbols.  They were previously commented out.  These symbols
> >   really shouldn't be exported since they should be pulled from libgcc, but
> >   the build of some applications is broken and they expect to see them in
> >   libc.  glibc exports these symbols, although Solaris doesn't appear to,
> >   so export them for compatibility's sake.
> >   
> >   After discussion with:  kan
> >   
> 
> I beleive we should better fix all ports that do improper linking, than
> live with a compatibility hack. I have checked some local ports, and
> there seems to be not very much of them. Furthermore, tcl was
> already fixed. Kris, can you provide a list of broken ports without this
> modification.

Unfortunately I no longer have them since they've been fixed, but you
can look on pointyhat's archive to check a build done just before this
date.

I think the concern is third party software though, since there is a
somewhat reasonable expectation (from glibc) that these symbols will
be exported.

Kris