From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 25 13:57:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7720237B4CF for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:57:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA56585; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:56:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAPLunP02645; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:56:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:56:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bill Fumerola Cc: current@freebsd.org, "Derek Schene'" Subject: Re: libc.so.4 not found Message-ID: <20001125135649.C2493@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@freebsd.org References: <3A1F75E3.2E17FC43@san.rr.com> <20001125024407.O14080@elvis.mu.org> <20001125030833.A54062@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001125124434.Q14080@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001125124434.Q14080@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:44:34PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:44:34PM -0600, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > Huh? Why the worst of both worlds?? > > Incompatible changes AND no way to differentiate between the two. (plus we > don't even know what changed it, so we have no way of telling people "your > libc before X won't work with binarys that use the frobozz() interface) There wasn't an incompatible change. There is too much confusion on this issue. There were two things that caused a problem. 1. a bug in libc_r such that programs that ran before, crashed. 2. a 4.1.1-RELEASE libc.so.4 was being used on a 4.0-RELEASE system. #1 just showed off incorrect application code. #2 has never been officially supported. > People who have binaries they can't recompile will need them. The fact that > it pains our CVS tree really isn't an issue to me, This is -current, so people should be able to deal with the issue. I'll probably put a 4.2-RELEASE libc.so.4 up for people to download and put in /usr/lib/compat manually. > I'd like to think we have software engineering that utilizes source > code management, and not the other way around. I would like to think that way too -- but that isn't the truth. As I said, I'm willing to commit a compat lib now, but I don't want any crap when I update it and the diff is the size of the file itself. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message