From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 21 11:53:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06605 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA06599 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA14076; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:50:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704211850.LAA14076@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!! To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:50:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, toor@dyson.iquest.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199704202308.SAA25543@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Apr 20, 97 06:08:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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 -r -x " instead of "strip -x "). 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.