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Date:      Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:02:04 +0200
From:      Holm Tiffe <holm@freibergnet.de>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: library problems with -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20050426080203.GB1413@pegasus.freiberg-net.de>
In-Reply-To: <200504211606.j3LG6gbc007250@peedub.jennejohn.org>
References:  <lars.engels@0x20.net> <20050420221903.GA738@bart.bsd-geek.de> <200504211606.j3LG6gbc007250@peedub.jennejohn.org>

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Gary Jennejohn wrote:

> 
> Lars Engels writes:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > I just upgraded my 5.4-PRERELEASE notebook to -CURRENT.
> > Compilation and installation went fine, but when I try to start firefox,
> > gkrellm and even portupgrade I get the following error message:
> > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1: Undefined symbol
> > "i386_get_gsbase"
> > 
> > Is there something i have not spotted in UPDATING? 
> > 
> > System:  FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #5: Wed Apr 20 23:21:11 CEST 2005
> > 
> 
> It's not in UPDATING, but a change was recently made (can't say exactly
> when) which affects %gs/%fs. If you're using -current then you really
> should watch the commits, too!
> 

Yes we should watch the commitlogs, but it's really bad behavior to brake
that many of the installed Applications and not to mention this fact in
UPDATING.  That's what IMHO version numbers for.

I'm reverting back to 04/13/2005 since I don't have the time now to
recompile everything to get my work done ..


:-(

Holm

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