Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 15:42:20 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jbeukema@hk.super.net, ernie@tinny.eis.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSD Message-ID: <199502262242.PAA02372@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) "Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSD" (Feb 26, 1:45pm)
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> If you think it's a difficult task, I can set aside next Saturday to > start to replace FreeBSD's libc with NetBSD's. Not replace, but merge in those changes since that would be the better solution. There is already too much information lost in the shlib implementation 'merges'. The libraries are too critical of a component to lose all of the change history. 'libc/stdio - Merged in NetBSD changes' is not enough information to making finding bugs (that certainly exist) at a later date even remotely possible. By replacing the FreeBSD library we are making our source code tools (weak as they may be) completely useless. > I maintain that the incompatability is gratuitous. Those areas where > FreeBSD has code that NetBSD does not should be rolled back into NetBSD > anyway. And are you going to be the one that rolls those changes into NetBSD as well? Nate
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