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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:58 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Subject:   Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...)
Message-ID:  <20010212173858.Q3274@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010212173410.O3038@dragon.nuxi.com>; from TrimYourCc@NUXI.com on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0800
References:  <xzpd7cno08x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200102130105.f1D15aU56009@mobile.wemm.org> <xzpd7cno08x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200102130126.f1D1Q6W33680@harmony.village.org> <20010212173410.O3038@dragon.nuxi.com>

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* David O'Brien <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com> [010212 17:35] wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:26:06PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > I don't see why we need only an increment of 1.  What does this buy us
> > other than a minor warm fuzzy.  
> 
> It is hackish.
> 
> > OpenBSD bumps libc bunchs of times per release cycle (they are up to
> > libc.so.24 if my sources are current).
> 
> They do not always get things right...
> 
> 
> Actually going from libc.so.500 to libc.so.{x<500} is easy.
> Copy libc.so.500 into /usr/lib/compat.  When the libc.so link is made to
> libc.so.{x<500}, that is the lib version number that will get burned into
> objects.  After the first `make world', rm /usr/lib/libc.so.500.

If that's true it doesn't seem like it would be terribly hard to 
add a check to the installworld / world target to check for cross
version upgrades and do the magic (or at least print out those
instructions).

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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