On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 08:42:57PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 03:58:14PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > > > > > See the new WANT_COMPAT4_STDIO make.conf knob. > > > > > > This won't be acceptable as the vender will likely not be producing a > > > separate 5.0 build (ie the same build needs to run on both.) until 4.x is > > > EOLed. Forcing people to rebuild libc seems a high barrier to entry. > > > > > > > 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. > > No; you're mixing things up. The compat4x stuff we have now allows > you to run 4.x binaries on 5.x. The problem that WANT_COMPAT4_STDIO > addresses is *compiling* 4.x compatible programs on 5.x! A world > of difference. >
I just looked through /usr/lib on the 4.7 live ISO. We are missing a bunch of libraries. See another post with the list. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
