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Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:31:30 +0200
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if you see undefined symbol '__mb_sb_limit' on 6.x
Message-ID:  <20071122213130.GU78396@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0711220638l7c5fba64k23c730b2af9c6a79@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6eb82e0711220638l7c5fba64k23c730b2af9c6a79@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:38:29PM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> The ctype fix for UTF-8 locale unfortunately introduced some
> new symbols to libc. Therefore, binaries built on system with
> that fix can not be used on older system. For that sake, the
> fix is back-out for 6-STABLE. If you see undefined symbols
> '__mb_sb_limit', please rebuild the affected binary. Everything
> will be fine then. Binaries built between 20071025 and 20071030
> will be affected by this.

Can this symbol be actually leaved in the libc ? If not used by the
ctype.h, it would provide binary compatibility with all RELENG_6
systems in existence, not only the ones before 20071025 ?

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