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Date:      Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:08:45 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: installworld gotchas
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010211190650.11437B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121039370.1466-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > 
> > > deischen    2001/02/11 14:06:46 PST
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     include              stdio.h 
> > >   Log:
> > >   libc MT-safety, part 2.
> > >   
> > >   Add a lock to FILE and define an additional flag.
> > 
> > This commit caused some bootstrap problems.  The installworld failed
> > installing perl which seemed to need sed (from /usr/bin/sed), and libc
> > got installed before sed.  I used the following to install:
> 
> I think this is telling you that the new libc is incompatible with old
> applications.  Installworld uses sed from ${INSTALLTMP}/sed.  It copies
> sed from /usr/bin/sed at the start to (almost) ensure that only the old
> version is used.  If perl actually uses /usr/bin/sed, then that is
> another bug in perl, but since perl is installed before sed, this makes
> no difference because /usr/bin/sed is still the old version.

The new libc is incompatible with some old applications, but I'm not
too sure why.  The lock was added at the end of FILE...

-- 
Dan Eischen


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