From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 6 18:42:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B4537B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:42:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D848E43E75 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0129.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.129] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 189ccS-00029u-00; Wed, 06 Nov 2002 18:42:08 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC9D2B2.A1AB271@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 18:40:50 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl Cc: "Steven G. Kargl" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING References: <200211070030.gA70UF05024508@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <3DC9B61F.922DAB3D@mindspring.com> <20021107005513.GA24375@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Kargl wrote: > > Any chance we could get rid of all externally visable symbols that > > are not defined as being there by some standard, and not just __sF, > > since we are breaking the FORTRAN compiler and other third party > > code already? > > This isn't restricted to my Fortran 95 problem, which I've > found an acceptable work-around. I just spent the better > part of a day re-installing 122 ports because these ports were > linked against an earlier libc. All of this is 3rd party > software. But, if you have a pre-20021031 world and you > build only a post-20021021 libc, then a whole bunch of > libraries in /usr/lib will becomed unusable. I'm more concerned about this happening again, the next time someone decides another symbol shouldn't be exposed. If we could get the pain over with all at once, that'd be a good thing. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message