Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 20:18:14 +0300 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com>, Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pan crashing in libgnuregex after -pthread switchover Message-ID: <20040320171814.GA59403@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040320140608.GA55352@nagual.pp.ru> References: <4058AC1C.10208@mitre.org> <xzpwu5i7s9v.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4059B9CD.1010003@openet-telecom.com> <4059C3B0.4080003@mitre.org> <20040318095842.W62520@carver.gumbysoft.com> <4059E668.1030405@openet-telecom.com> <20040320125806.GA53843@nagual.pp.ru> <20040320140608.GA55352@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:06:08PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:58:07PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > Idea that library must match headers used is pretty natural. > > Just yet one note: the ports which expects _binary_ compatibility between > our headers and some 3rd party library (as GNU one) are broken initially. > Even it was so at some moment, later each library can evolve by its own > path, so nothing guaranteed here. The exact example of this situation is the whole case we discuss. I not remove NO_POSIX_COMPAT ifndef from GNU sources - they did it by themself. Should we revert their decision and make it looks like old one? Should we do it in all future cases? I think - not. -- Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
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