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Date:      Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:37:08 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), marcel@scc.nl (Marcel Moolenaar), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal
Message-ID:  <199909302137.PAA00310@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909302108.OAA24331@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910010621210.16934-100000@alphplex.bde.org> <199909302108.OAA24331@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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> > Mainly historical bugs.  Includes are installed too early and they only
> > match the new syscalls.  Tools are built using the new includes, so they
> > need new libraries to be consistent.  Therefore the new libraries are
> > built before the new tools.  These bugs were implemented in FreeBSD-1 by
> > someone named rgrimes :-).
> 
> I'll eat the crow, yes, I did implement that.  It was the first step
> at even being able to ``make world''.  Had to start some place.  And
> technically the bug dates back to the patchkit, infact probably  a
> 1.x version of the 386BSD PatchKit.

Naw, 386BSD was never able to 'build itself' from scratch.  That was a
FreeBSD/rgrimes addition, bugs and all. :) :) :)


Nate


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