From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 13 23:04:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15134 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 23:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15126 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 23:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00594; Thu, 14 May 1998 01:03:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805140603.BAA00594@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Undefined symbol "___error" In-Reply-To: from Michael Hancock at "May 14, 98 01:58:16 pm" To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 01:03:14 -0500 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Hancock said: > On Thu, 14 May 1998, John Birrell wrote: > > > No, it's "relinked" so that a program will know to use the later libc. > > The problem here is not that the libc major number needs to be bumped, > > but *all* other libraries that use errno.h need a major number bump. > > Bruce pointed this out. > > > > Bruce wants the change backed out. I haven't heard from anyone else. > > Should I bump the major number of all the shared libraries in the > > FreeBSD tree? Should I back out the change and forget about making future > > objects thread-aware? Should I do nothing? > > Rre there any other pending changes that can bundled with the major number > bump? > > We do need things to adjust for threads. > I think that we should use the new errno stuff, but should be done more seamlessly. If we don't do it now, we'll have troubles sometime in the future. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message