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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 1997 23:42:11 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, toj@gorilla.net
Cc:        bde@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sys/mount.h breaks mod3lib build
Message-ID:  <199709201342.XAA25914@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>dying while downloading. After the 16th commit of the changes
>to sys/mount.h I deleted cvsup and tried to rebuild. It failed
>in the m3core section mentioning prototype error with mount.h.
>Restored mount.h to the 12th taped version and m3lib built fine
>and the download with worked just great. I haven't looked into
>this any further.

mount(2) has taken a `const char *name' arg since 1997/02/10 when
Lite2 was merged, but the prototype was left wrong for backwards
compatibility until 1997/09/16.  Apparently m3lib still uses the
old version.  This works if it compiles because of crufty binary
compatibility code in the kernel.

Bruce
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