Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:42:57 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __sF Message-ID: <20021103044257.GC2880@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20021102235814.GB30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20021102233215.GA30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20021102183431.V35807-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <20021102235814.GB30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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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
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