From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 2 21:38:40 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 0F2F637B401 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:38:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF8443E4A for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:38:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA35cceZ031776; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:38:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA35cbHu031775; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:38:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:38:37 -0800 From: Steve Kargl To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Mark Murray , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __sF Message-ID: <20021103053837.GA31767@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20021102233215.GA30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20021102183431.V35807-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <20021102235814.GB30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20021103044257.GC2880@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021103044257.GC2880@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 08:42:57PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > 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. > I just looked through /usr/lib on the 4.7 live ISO. We are missing a bunch of libraries. See another post with the list. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message