From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 2 20:43: 0 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 5DE3B37B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:42:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0B643E42 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:42:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA34gw0N091798; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:42:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA34gwFE003010; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:42:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA34gvif003009; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:42:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:42:57 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Steve Kargl Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Mark Murray , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __sF Message-ID: <20021103044257.GC2880@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20021102233215.GA30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20021102183431.V35807-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <20021102235814.GB30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021102235814.GB30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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, Nov 02, 2002 at 03:58:14PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > 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. No; you're mixing things up. The compat4x stuff we have now allows you to run 4.x binaries on 5.x. The problem that WANT_COMPAT4_STDIO addresses is *compiling* 4.x compatible programs on 5.x! A world of difference. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message