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Date:      Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:42:33 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Cc:        winter@jurai.net, mark@grondar.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: __sF
Message-ID:  <20021102.174233.109548622.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021102233215.GA30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <200211021906.gA2J6ld0072679@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20021102181431.H35807-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <20021102233215.GA30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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In message: <20021102233215.GA30122@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
            Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:15:09PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
: > On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Mark Murray wrote:
: > > This shouldn't be a problem. The commercial software Should Not Be(tm)
: > > supporting something as variable as CURRENT, and with the STABLE libraries
: > > around in COMPAT mode, the compiler Will Just Work(tm) (or should with
: > > not much effort).
: > >
: > > By the time __sF is mainstream, I guess the vendor will have adapted
: > > their product to match. Win, win.
: > 
: > This isn't the case for one piece of vendor software that I'm not allowed
: > to talk about.
: > 
: 
: See the new WANT_COMPAT4_STDIO make.conf knob.

But that knob is a total kludge and *WRONG* for this case.  It lets
things link, but you are still cross threading 4.x and 5.x binaries,
which is asking to be shot in the foot.

Warner

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