Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 03:54:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@kts.org>, FreeBSD-current Mailinglist <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol "__sF") Message-ID: <3DA950FC.A8B22B3F@mindspring.com> References: <20021013082248.BDB7454C4@bert.kts.org> <20021013083812.GA9050@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:22:48AM +0200, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > Had a very bad night after upgrading my main machine from a September-based > > current to a -current as of yesterday, for many, many of the programs > > running on that machine i got an error message like > > Peter removed the stdio transitional aid for older -current systems. > This means that older 5.0 libraries are no longer compatible with the > new 5.0 libc, and you will need to recompile everything that depends > on them. 4.x applications (i.e. things that link with libc.so.4) > should be unaffected. The "resize" program and other X11 programs break because of the changes in this area: % resize /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: \ Undefined symbol "__stdoutp" > This is a required change for 5.0-RELEASE. So's the bumping of the version numbers on the libraries whose interfaces have been changed -- both producer (libc) and consumer (libncurses). This also means libncurses needs to be part of the "compat4.x" that comes with 5.x. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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