On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:53:49AM -0500, Jim Bloom wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:51:11PM -0500, Jim Bloom wrote:
> > > I did the following and it worked for me:
> > >
> > > cd /usr/src
> > > make buildworld
> > > make installworld
> > > cd /usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall
> > > make install
> > > cd /usr/src
> > > make installworld
> > >
> > > The first make installworld terminates with an errors, but the second on
> > > goes through.
> > >
> > It can't be true!
>
> Nope, I'm pretty sure that is exactly what I did.
>
> >
> > After the first `make installworld' fails, we will have:
> > 1) a new `libutil' without string_to_flags()
> > 2) an old `libc' without setflags()
> > 3) an old /usr/bin/install with string_to_flags() linked against libutil.
>
> I believe the new libc has been installed as well. My first
> installworld got an error while trying to install rcp. I believe this
> is the first program that uses any flags to install. Once you get to
> this point, all of the libraries have been installed.
>
Yeah, just figured this myself, but one thing I still don't understand
is how the new libc.so.4 gets installed on the first pass? The problem
is that it is declared as PRECIOUSLIB in libc/Makefile, this will result
in -fschg passed to install. Do you have a log from the first failed
installworld?
> I believe there is lazy resolution of the library symbols at run time.
> They are not checked until they are actually referenced, not when the
> program starts executing. They are first checked when ln is run, but
> that used consistent versions of the libraries for both version of
> install.
>
True, my apologies.
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