Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:50:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Cc: terry@lambert.org, toor@dyson.iquest.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!! Message-ID: <199704211850.LAA14076@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704202308.SAA25543@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Apr 20, 97 06:08:24 pm
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> > > There is a serious bug in popen that has gone undetected until now. I > > > have just committed a fix that makes the shared address space vfork > > > problem go away (which was due to the popen boo-boo.) I will not > > > be committing the fix to vfork until people have a chance to recompile > > > their libc and re-link their apps with the corrected library. > > > > Just a heads up... > > > > To build the new libc, you will need to be running a version of 'ld' > > that understands the "-O" option. > > If I get any complaints from people running -current that they cannot > build the libc, I'll put one on an anonymous ftp site for their use. > It is libc as of today. Just let me know if you need it. (BTW, > one shouldn't run -current without preparing to rebuild things, but > I am just trying to help if you can't.) No, I needed to rebuild libc for a different reason: to get the new_getvfsbyname() call for the move to a post Lite2 kernel, and ran into all this bogus BS dependencies on "-O". It's quite annoying that you have to rebuild basically all of user space in order to build the kernel-dependent portions of user space, is all I'm saying. If anyone goes into this with a faint heart (or full disks), then they're going to get royally screwed in the process because of the Makefile.inc and /usr/share/mk/*.mk changes which presume a munged "ld" to do the job of "strip" (for some reason I can't fathom, the changes use "ld -O <foo> -r -x <foo>" instead of "strip -x <foo>"). In any case, it's odd to depend on the build tools (other than as) needing rebuilt, since (unlike as) they are pretty much like potato chips: if you build one, you have to build them all. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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