From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17:39: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAB037B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f1D1cwx17057; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:58 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) Message-ID: <20010212173858.Q3274@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200102130105.f1D15aU56009@mobile.wemm.org> <200102130126.f1D1Q6W33680@harmony.village.org> <20010212173410.O3038@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010212173410.O3038@dragon.nuxi.com>; from TrimYourCc@NUXI.com on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David O'Brien [010212 17:35] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:26:06PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > I don't see why we need only an increment of 1. What does this buy us > > other than a minor warm fuzzy. > > It is hackish. > > > OpenBSD bumps libc bunchs of times per release cycle (they are up to > > libc.so.24 if my sources are current). > > They do not always get things right... > > > Actually going from libc.so.500 to libc.so.{x<500} is easy. > Copy libc.so.500 into /usr/lib/compat. When the libc.so link is made to > libc.so.{x<500}, that is the lib version number that will get burned into > objects. After the first `make world', rm /usr/lib/libc.so.500. If that's true it doesn't seem like it would be terribly hard to add a check to the installworld / world target to check for cross version upgrades and do the magic (or at least print out those instructions). -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message