From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 6 16:40:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBFC37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:40:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D63943E42 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:40:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0019.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.19] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 189aj9-0005KS-00; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 16:40:55 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC9B61F.922DAB3D@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 16:38:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steven G. Kargl" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING References: <200211070030.gA70UF05024508@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Steven G. Kargl" wrote: > Could someone add the following patch to UPDATING? > Change the words to whatever suits your fancy. > +20021031 > + Revision 1.24 of lib/libc/stdio/findfp.c has made __sF static. > + This changes the visibility of __sF to a symbol internal to > + libc. All applications linked against libc or a library that > + depends on libc that were compiled prior to 31 Oct 2002 will > + need to be updated after a "make world". An error message that > + includes "undefined reference to `__sF'" is an indication that > + that application needs to be recompiled. > + Any chance we could get rid of all externally visable symbols that are not defined as being there by some standard, and not just __sF, since we are breaking the FORTRAN compiler and other third party code already? It would be nice if this only ever happened *once*. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message