From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 30 02:32:08 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA14021 for current-outgoing; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 02:32:08 -0700 Received: from po2.transarc.com (po2.transarc.com [192.54.226.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA14015 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 02:32:05 -0700 Received: by po2.transarc.com (5.54/3.15) id for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Apr 95 05:32:00 EDT Received: via switchmail; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 05:31:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unix3 via qmail ID ; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 05:31:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unix3 via qmail ID ; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 05:31:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cui.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.unix3.sun4.40 via MS.5.6.unix3.sun4_40; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 05:31:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 05:31:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat_Barron@transarc.com To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Two questions/comments about latest -current snapshot.... Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, this weekend, I finally managed to get a copy of -current that would build from /usr/src all the way down, and to get my machine in a condition to do that, for the first time in over a month. Having just finished a "make world", I have a couple of comments and/or questions about what I've just installed..... 1) Now that the disk slice code is in place, shouldn't fdisk be changed to use "/dev/rwd0" instead of "/dev/rwd0d"? (That's a rhetorical question, of course - it seems pretty clear that this should be done.....). [BTW, the error messages that came out of the disk slice code the first time I booted this kernel were pretty scary - talking about partitions being rejected because they were not contained entirely within the slice. It's also pretty scary that, when it discovered this, it apparently modified the on-disk copy of the disk label. For safety, shouldn't I have had to do that manually? It's sort of disconcerting to have stuff dinking with the on-disk disk label behind my back.....] 2) I notice that the SLIP driver has been changed to require a destination address for SIOCSIFADDR. I've never been really sure what to fill in for this, since the device on the other end of my SLIP connection (a Cisco terminal server) doesn't really "look" like a traditional point-to-point interface - the other end doesn't have it's own, distinct IP address. I just put my SLIP address as both the interface address and the destination address, and that seems to work OK. Is there something else I should be doing instead? (OK, that's not strictly a FreeBSD question, but it is something I haven't had to worry about until my latest build of -current). Oh, I actually have a third comment, too (regardless of what the subject line of this message says). "make -DCLOBBER world" does not seem to work, since the build procedure wants to build ld.so very early on, and at the time it tries to do this, libc.a has been removed and not rebuilt yet (of course, ld.so is linked static). (This is different than the the way it used to fail, where /usr/include/ss got messed up....) Enjoy, --Pat.