Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:08:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: marcel@scc.nl (Marcel Moolenaar), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal Message-ID: <199909302108.OAA24331@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910010621210.16934-100000@alphplex.bde.org> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 1, 1999 06:22:57 am"
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> > Why are the tools being built using new syscalls? What causes this? > > Mainly historical bugs. Includes are installed too early and they only > match the new syscalls. Tools are built using the new includes, so they > need new libraries to be consistent. Therefore the new libraries are > built before the new tools. These bugs were implemented in FreeBSD-1 by > someone named rgrimes :-). I'll eat the crow, yes, I did implement that. It was the first step at even being able to ``make world''. Had to start some place. And technically the bug dates back to the patchkit, infact probably a 1.x version of the 386BSD PatchKit. Now, the addition of obj/tmp and the TOOLS thing was suppose to fix that by using the current headers/libraries to build a set of tools that didn't go smashing around on the system. If someone copied the earlier work that had a different purpose, and these nasty bugs, well... they would certainly still be there! -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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