Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:49:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!! Message-ID: <199704202249.PAA12412@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704160401.XAA03609@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Apr 15, 97 11:01:18 pm
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> There is a serious bug in popen that has gone undetected until now. I > have just committed a fix that makes the shared address space vfork > problem go away (which was due to the popen boo-boo.) I will not > be committing the fix to vfork until people have a chance to recompile > their libc and re-link their apps with the corrected library. Just a heads up... To build the new libc, you will need to be running a version of 'ld' that understands the "-O" option. You will also need to update /usr/share/mk/* to be able to do the build because of the .include dependencies. If you update/usr/share/mk/*, then you will need to have a version of 'ld' that undestands the "-O" option to build *ANY* library, not just libc. The nifty thing about getting an 'ld' that understands "-O" is that you will need the entrire GCC build tree to build it because it's not a self-contained port. Why are /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc and /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk using "ld -O <name> -r -x <name>" instead of "strip -x <name>"? ...Probably to make life complicated for anyone who decides to upgrade libc by simply building it. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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