From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 13 3:56:17 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 98BBC37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 03:56:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101FE43E7B for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 03:56:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0024.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.24] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 180gPk-0000na-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 03:56:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3DA950FC.A8B22B3F@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 03:54:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Hellmuth Michaelis , FreeBSD-current Mailinglist Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol "__sF") References: <20021013082248.BDB7454C4@bert.kts.org> <20021013083812.GA9050@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:22:48AM +0200, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > Had a very bad night after upgrading my main machine from a September-based > > current to a -current as of yesterday, for many, many of the programs > > running on that machine i got an error message like > > Peter removed the stdio transitional aid for older -current systems. > This means that older 5.0 libraries are no longer compatible with the > new 5.0 libc, and you will need to recompile everything that depends > on them. 4.x applications (i.e. things that link with libc.so.4) > should be unaffected. The "resize" program and other X11 programs break because of the changes in this area: % resize /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: \ Undefined symbol "__stdoutp" > This is a required change for 5.0-RELEASE. So's the bumping of the version numbers on the libraries whose interfaces have been changed -- both producer (libc) and consumer (libncurses). This also means libncurses needs to be part of the "compat4.x" that comes with 5.x. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message