Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:17:17 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/quad Symbol.map Message-ID: <20070607181717.GB27572@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070607220155.4ff2a59d.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <200705311307.l4VD7cjR044688@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070607220155.4ff2a59d.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:01:55PM +0400, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2007 13:07:37 +0000 (UTC) > Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org> mentioned: > > > deischen 2007-05-31 13:07:37 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > lib/libc/quad Symbol.map > > Log: > > Export quad symbols. They were previously commented out. These symbols > > really shouldn't be exported since they should be pulled from libgcc, but > > the build of some applications is broken and they expect to see them in > > libc. glibc exports these symbols, although Solaris doesn't appear to, > > so export them for compatibility's sake. > > > > After discussion with: kan > > > > I beleive we should better fix all ports that do improper linking, than > live with a compatibility hack. I have checked some local ports, and > there seems to be not very much of them. Furthermore, tcl was > already fixed. Kris, can you provide a list of broken ports without this > modification. Unfortunately I no longer have them since they've been fixed, but you can look on pointyhat's archive to check a build done just before this date. I think the concern is third party software though, since there is a somewhat reasonable expectation (from glibc) that these symbols will be exported. Kris
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