From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 01:28:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772AF16A4E1 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:28:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6486B43D46 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:28:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 26653 invoked by uid 399); 20 Jul 2006 01:28:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.7?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jul 2006 01:28:11 -0000 Message-ID: <44BEDC33.4070909@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:28:19 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" References: <44BE8912.9010807@palisadesys.com> <20060719.181215.63038086.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060719.181215.63038086.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ghelmer@palisadesys.com, Hajimu UMEMOTO Subject: Re: Can't run newly-compiled RELENG_6 programs under RELENG_6_1: missing __res_state X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:28:13 -0000 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <44BE8912.9010807@palisadesys.com> > Guy Helmer writes: > : We just tried running programs under RELENG_6_1 that were compiled under > : RELENG_6 checked out 2006-07-19, and couldn't because of the undefined > : symbol "__res_state"l, which I would assume is a result of the recent > : MFC of the BIND 9 resolver library. Is this to be expected? It will > : cause a bit of a hassle... > > It is not officially supported by the project. You are running a > binary compiled on a newer version of the system on an older version > of the system. This has sometimes worked in the past, but is outside > the area that's expected to work. There's been a number of breakages > similar to this in past RELENG branches (there was one in 3.x and a > lot on 4.x). > > Having said that, can someone track down the problem in more detail to > see if there might not be something we can do to mitigate the problem > in the older versions? What is __res_state? I forwarded ume the relevant info, since he's the architect of the change I think we should give him a chance to respond. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection