Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:36:59 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Huver <huver@amgraf.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, joe@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.8 PreRelease problems Message-ID: <20030228193658.GF86620@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200302281542.JAA02094@amgraf.com> References: <200302281542.JAA02094@amgraf.com>
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--R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:42:48AM -0600, Huver wrote: > I suppose this list is "the right place"? >=20 > 4.8 pre-release problems: >=20 > A. The new "__stdinp, __stdoutp, __stderrp" in <stdio.h> is causing major > problems for 3.x binaries. E.g. such a binary uses compat/libc.so.3, > but also libm.so.2 -- the latter includes <stdio.h> but has no compat > version. All /usr/lib/lib*.so that have no compat version, but include > the new <stdio.h>, cause this problem. Read /usr/src/UPDATING. > B. The change to "UPACKED" structs in <dev/usb.h> causes existing binaries > that do ioctl() -- the only way to obtain any USB dev info -- to fail. > Those structures have never been declared packed before, and now sudde= nly > changed size and/or memer alignment. I don't know about this one, I've CC'ed the USB maintainer. > BTW, I made the mistake of cvsup'ing to RELENG_4 from a 4.6.2, thinking I > was updating to 4.7, now I'll have to back down to 4.7+post-patches. I'm > entering a reqeust now: in the future, "pre-release" be made a new, short- > lived branch (delete it after the release is cut), but OFF the stable bra= nch. No, that would be silly. There's no real difference between "pre-release" and "post-release" (the items you mentioned above were merged into RELENG_4 some time ago). Kris --R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+X7paWry0BWjoQKURAp6oAKDKmUksfV7KTtfmR4F3dndL0ohkrwCfT7Nl LdjKJeLqBv0svWnN2qEqD4w= =6xQh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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