From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 28 11:37: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4574A37B401; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:37:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875F343F3F; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8E7679DA; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:36:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0A96A1249; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:36:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:36:59 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Huver Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, joe@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.8 PreRelease problems Message-ID: <20030228193658.GF86620@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200302281542.JAA02094@amgraf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302281542.JAA02094@amgraf.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:42:48AM -0600, Huver wrote: > I suppose this list is "the right place"? >=20 > 4.8 pre-release problems: >=20 > A. The new "__stdinp, __stdoutp, __stderrp" in is causing major > problems for 3.x binaries. E.g. such a binary uses compat/libc.so.3, > but also libm.so.2 -- the latter includes but has no compat > version. All /usr/lib/lib*.so that have no compat version, but include > the new , cause this problem. Read /usr/src/UPDATING. > B. The change to "UPACKED" structs in causes existing binaries > that do ioctl() -- the only way to obtain any USB dev info -- to fail. > Those structures have never been declared packed before, and now sudde= nly > changed size and/or memer alignment. I don't know about this one, I've CC'ed the USB maintainer. > BTW, I made the mistake of cvsup'ing to RELENG_4 from a 4.6.2, thinking I > was updating to 4.7, now I'll have to back down to 4.7+post-patches. I'm > entering a reqeust now: in the future, "pre-release" be made a new, short- > lived branch (delete it after the release is cut), but OFF the stable bra= nch. No, that would be silly. There's no real difference between "pre-release" and "post-release" (the items you mentioned above were merged into RELENG_4 some time ago). Kris --R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+X7paWry0BWjoQKURAp6oAKDKmUksfV7KTtfmR4F3dndL0ohkrwCfT7Nl LdjKJeLqBv0svWnN2qEqD4w= =6xQh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message