From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 2 16:46:59 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 237C537B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:46:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6546F43E6E for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:46:57 -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 gA30ku6D073303; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:46:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:46:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Steve Kargl Cc: Mark Murray , Subject: Re: __sF In-Reply-To: <20021102235814.GB30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: <20021102194604.N35807-100000@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: > Maybe I misunderstand you. But, a person running FreeBSD 5.x, > who wants to runs this vendor's 4.x software, will need to > build their libc with WANT_COMPAT4_STDIO defined if this > product needs to see __sF. Yes, and this presents a fairly high support barrier for users that will be unable to recompile their libc. -- | 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