From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 4 05:54:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01692 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 05:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01677; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 05:54:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.10] (user10.dataplex.net [208.2.87.10]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA15786; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:53:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980604131623.26110@follo.net> References: <20509.896942218@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:36:58PM -0700 <199806040448.WAA03377@pluto.plutotech.com> <20509.896942218@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:52:56 -0500 To: Eivind Eklund From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Matt Behrens: Re: kernel compile problem Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Justin T. Gibbs" , gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 6:16 AM -0500 6/4/98, Eivind Eklund wrote: >Are -current config required to be able to config -stable, or is this >capability just an accident? I'm discussing some changes with rkw, >and knowing whether this is an invariant would be very useful :-) I wouldn't call it "an accident" any more than the fact that Perl5 can handle many, but not all, Perl4 scripts. I think that it is unreasonable to demand backward compatability. If you are compiling 2.x, you should use the tools that go with it. This is similar to the problems in shared libraries. When the interface to a library changes, the new version may, or may not, still work with code that expects the older interface. If the code needs the older interface, you should either continue to use the older library or modify the code to meet the newer interface. I certainly think that we need to make the building (or verification) of the tool a part of the Makefile dependencies. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message