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Date:      Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:15:34 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
To:        Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed
Message-ID:  <99Oct1.101231est.40357@border.alcanet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199910010003.RAA09834@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
References:  <gurney_j@efn.org> <199910010003.RAA09834@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>

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On Fri, Oct 01, 1999, you wrote:
>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.

No, all it means is that the tools to install the new userland need
to have special shellscripts with '#!/ibin/sh' or similar, or be
explicitly invoked (eg /ibin/sh foo).  I don't think this is a real
problem.

Peter
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