Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:03:38 -0700 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed Message-ID: <199910010003.RAA09834@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> "Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed" (Sep 30, 4:14pm)
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On Sep 30, 4:14pm, John-Mark Gurney wrote: } Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed } > } > In this particular case, the only thing cross-compilation would buy us } > is the ability to build (but not install) 4.x binaries on a machine } > running 3.x. It sounds like some folks would be satisfied just having } > that. } } I'm sorry, this is easy to fix... have a set of tools you copy to /ibin } that are used for the install (all staticly compiled binaries hopefully) } and run the install world out of /ibin... maybe include some binaries } for system recovery to make sure... ... but as soon as you run the stuff in /ibin to install the new userland, you won't even be able to run a shell script, because the newly installed /bin/sh will be using the new signal syscalls. The install process will have to include installing a new kernel and will have to be followed by an immediate reboot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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