Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:08:45 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: installworld gotchas Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010211190650.11437B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121039370.1466-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> >
> > > deischen 2001/02/11 14:06:46 PST
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > include stdio.h
> > > Log:
> > > libc MT-safety, part 2.
> > >
> > > Add a lock to FILE and define an additional flag.
> >
> > This commit caused some bootstrap problems. The installworld failed
> > installing perl which seemed to need sed (from /usr/bin/sed), and libc
> > got installed before sed. I used the following to install:
>
> I think this is telling you that the new libc is incompatible with old
> applications. Installworld uses sed from ${INSTALLTMP}/sed. It copies
> sed from /usr/bin/sed at the start to (almost) ensure that only the old
> version is used. If perl actually uses /usr/bin/sed, then that is
> another bug in perl, but since perl is installed before sed, this makes
> no difference because /usr/bin/sed is still the old version.
The new libc is incompatible with some old applications, but I'm not
too sure why. The lock was added at the end of FILE...
--
Dan Eischen
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