From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17: 9:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD98137B503 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:09:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1D19JU56042; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:09:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102130109.f1D19JU56042@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Warner Losh , Daniel Eischen , John Indra , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:09:19 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Warner Losh writes: > > I'd rather see this patch, or something similar, than bump the major > > version again. We can phase in a better way to obviate the need to do > > this in the future. > > Brian Feldman, Peter Wemm, David O'Brien and myself have been > discussing possible solutions on IRC for the past two hours. Peter > will likely commit a patch sometime soon. Sorry, I made the mistake of looking at this bikeshed and lost my nerve. The patch I was going to commit was: http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/stdio.diff3 .. but this *totally* breaks installworld due to *BAD* brokenness in installworld. I can deal with /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 recompiles, but when the installworld dies because the dynamic linked copy of /usr/bin/* in /tmp/XXX/* gets the /usr/lib/libc.so.5 clobbered and explodes, leaving a 100% totally screwed up system, then I begin to think we are doing something wrong. If it wasn't for that, I could deal with a /usr/local and /usr/X11R6/lib recompile. I wish the people who say 'dont bump libraries at any cost' would fix the build so it was possible for an installworld to complete with an incompatable libc change. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message