Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:56:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, "Derek Schene'" <ferret@san.rr.com> Subject: Re: libc.so.4 not found Message-ID: <20001125135649.C2493@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20001125124434.Q14080@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:44:34PM -0600 References: <3A1F75E3.2E17FC43@san.rr.com> <20001125024407.O14080@elvis.mu.org> <20001125030833.A54062@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001125124434.Q14080@elvis.mu.org>
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:44:34PM -0600, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > Huh? Why the worst of both worlds?? > > Incompatible changes AND no way to differentiate between the two. (plus we > don't even know what changed it, so we have no way of telling people "your > libc before X won't work with binarys that use the frobozz() interface) There wasn't an incompatible change. There is too much confusion on this issue. There were two things that caused a problem. 1. a bug in libc_r such that programs that ran before, crashed. 2. a 4.1.1-RELEASE libc.so.4 was being used on a 4.0-RELEASE system. #1 just showed off incorrect application code. #2 has never been officially supported. > People who have binaries they can't recompile will need them. The fact that > it pains our CVS tree really isn't an issue to me, This is -current, so people should be able to deal with the issue. I'll probably put a 4.2-RELEASE libc.so.4 up for people to download and put in /usr/lib/compat manually. > I'd like to think we have software engineering that utilizes source > code management, and not the other way around. I would like to think that way too -- but that isn't the truth. As I said, I'm willing to commit a compat lib now, but I don't want any crap when I update it and the diff is the size of the file itself. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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