Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:55:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Undefined symbol "___error" Message-ID: <199805122155.QAA04191@unix.tfs.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpn2cn70rc.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= at "May 12, 98 09:22:15 pm"
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In reply: > Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net> writes: > > this has got to be one of the most damnned inconvenient changes i > > have ever seen freebsd take... > > So who forced you to run current? If you don't like this, stick to stable. > > > does this mean that ALL third party programs that use curses MUST be > > recompiled?!?!?! > > Recompiled, no. Relinked, yes. > > > just because, as i understand it, they didn't want to bump the lib > > version numbers?!?!?! > > <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook285.html#615>; > > > does anyone realize how much this change breaks????!!!! > > Again, this is -current. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the > kitchen. > > BTW, are your ? and ! keys stuck?????!?!?!??!!!! i understand the meaning of -current... even the one that says some idiotic change could bring down 60% of the apps ever written for FreeBSD. that is why such changes are made in -current. if such changes ever made it to -release, then watch how fast people split the fold and go to openbsd, or even linux for fear that anything they write will have to be re-released with the very next version of -release. i'll submit a diff tonight/tomorrow that will satisfy the requirements for the call without even relinking the target; a do-nothing stub that should have been factored in when the original __error was removed. jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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