Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:13:31 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw fails between 10/17 and 11/6 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111151611070.1677-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> In-Reply-To: <20011114235755.A60439@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Stop right there; the only supported way to rebuild your source tree > is to make buildworld. In this instance, there were header changes ok, so the only fix is a buildworld/installworld combo. was hoping to avoid that, but i guess if it needs to be done, it's gotta be done. > > i know this sounds like a classic case of mismatch between userland and > > kernel > > No, that would produce a runtime failure, not a compile failure. it was a runtime failure which sparked off this whole thing, new kernal and older ipfw binary coredumping. > Not relevant; when headers change, they change, and you have to > recompile code against the new version, not the old (i.e. by doing a i understand that, but was sort of moaning that the headers have changed midstream within a point release, instead of being committed against the next point release. it's a minor bitch. but thanks for the pointers anyways all, i'm off to go build world. Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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