On Friday 24 August 2007 02:36:30 pm Yar Tikhiy wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:03:12AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > > >yar 2007-08-23 05:09:31 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > > > Modified files: > > > lib/libc/gen fts-compat.c fts-compat.h > > > Log: > > > Forced commit to note repo-copy: > > > > > > These files have been repo-copied from src/include/fts.h > > > and src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c to serve as a base for 4.4BSD > > > compatible versions of fts(3) functions to be preserved > > > through libc symbol versioning while the default versions > > > undergo ABI-breaking extension to support big file trees. > > > > When are you going to break the ABI? After 7.0 is tagged > > and released? If you break the ABI before, you don't need > > or want to have the compat versions; the libraries have already > > been bumped in prep for release. I don't think we want to > > use symbol versioning as a crutch for -current users; the > > version definitions are meant for public releases only. > > The reason for exercising symbol versions right now is that "make > installworld" is sensitive to the fts(3) ABI. If the ABI is just > broken w/o special measures, "make installworld" will fail in the > middle and leave you with a botched system. It goes as follows: > > - "make installworld" copies the old /usr/bin/find and some other > tools to /tmp/install.xxx for use during the install > - libc is overwritten by its new instance, with new fts(3) ABI > - the old find(1) is run by installworld and dumps core immediately. > > Earlier the problem was to be avoided by bumping libc version so > that the old libc is kept, and now I chose symbol versioning to get > around it. Do you think there is a different way?
6.x users upgrading to 7.0 will have a 6.x /usr/bin/find, so they will be ok. It's only old -current users who already have a libc.so.7 that will be inconvenienced, and that's part of running -current. Maybe you could use a hack where for 7.x osreldate's you copy tools out of /rescue instead for a few weeks to give people on -current a chance to upgrade. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"