From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 8 02:32:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA00306 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 02:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA00296 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 02:32:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA04863; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:27:16 +1100 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:27:16 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199801081027.VAA04863@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: drow@drow.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speaking of broken stable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Since the problem seemed to be in libc I upgraded my libc to tonights, and >__generic_syscall undefined itself - breaking EVERYTHING not statically >linked. Fortunately, ncftpd was already running, so I could ftp in a >2.2.5-RELEASE libc. __generic_syscall should not be defined or referenced any any version of FreeBSD, but references to it seem to be created by inconsistent sets o headers. References to __generic_xxx are only supposed to be created for certain math functions. These are created by the GNAME() macro in . GNAME() is only supposed to be used in src/lib/msun. It is apparently being used in src/lib/libc/i386. Bruce