From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 16:57:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC98737B684 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:57:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1D0vJo08018; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:57:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:57:19 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matt Dillon Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: installworld gotchas Message-ID: <20010212165719.F3038@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200102120024.BAA49364@midten.fast.no> <200102120044.f1C0iLV01142@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102120044.f1C0iLV01142@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 04:44:21PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 04:44:21PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > This is a major change to libc. The library maj must be bumped if you > intend to change the sizeof(FILE), or every single third party application > that uses stdio will break. For -stable this would be true. We've already done the bump in -current. -current users are expected to be able to work themselves over this huddle. Alternately, we should add symbol versioning to our shared libs like Solaris does. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message