Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:42:48 -0600 (CST) From: huver@amgraf.com (Huver) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 4.8 PreRelease problems Message-ID: <200302281542.JAA02094@amgraf.com>
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I suppose this list is "the right place"? 4.8 pre-release problems: A. The new "__stdinp, __stdoutp, __stderrp" in <stdio.h> is causing major problems for 3.x binaries. E.g. such a binary uses compat/libc.so.3, but also libm.so.2 -- the latter includes <stdio.h> but has no compat version. All /usr/lib/lib*.so that have no compat version, but include the new <stdio.h>, cause this problem. B. The change to "UPACKED" structs in <dev/usb.h> causes existing binaries that do ioctl() -- the only way to obtain any USB dev info -- to fail. Those structures have never been declared packed before, and now suddenly changed size and/or memer alignment. BTW, I made the mistake of cvsup'ing to RELENG_4 from a 4.6.2, thinking I was updating to 4.7, now I'll have to back down to 4.7+post-patches. I'm entering a reqeust now: in the future, "pre-release" be made a new, short- lived branch (delete it after the release is cut), but OFF the stable branch. -huver huver@amgraf.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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