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            Steve Kargl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Maybe I misunderstand you.  But, a person running FreeBSD 5.x,
: who wants to runs this vendor's 4.x software, will need to
: build their libc with WANT_COMPAT4_STDIO defined if this
: product needs to see __sF.

All that kludge does is to allow a program that shouldn't be allowed
to link to link.  You need to setup to compile 4.x binaries on the 5.x
machine, or you will lose in the long run.  __sF is only the first of
many issues, some subtle, that you'll face cross-threading 4.x and 5.x
libraries.

Warner

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