From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 21 12:01:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07075 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:01:54 -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 MAA07070 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA16770; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:59:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704211859.LAA16770@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!! To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:59:22 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, toor@dyson.iquest.net, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704210746.RAA25842@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 21, 97 05:46:13 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 no need to build a new libc to build a new ld. Bootstrap > using something like `cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld; make; su ...; make > install; exit'. You have the dependency order reversed. There is a need to build a new ld to build a new libc. There's a need for a full gcc tree to get a new ld. There is a need to build a new libc to build a new mount, or to build to include the vfork/pipe changes John Dyson made to libc. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.