On Fri, Oct 01, 1999, you wrote:
>On Sep 30, 4:14pm, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>} Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed
>} >
>} > In this particular case, the only thing cross-compilation would buy us
>} > is the ability to build (but not install) 4.x binaries on a machine
>} > running 3.x. It sounds like some folks would be satisfied just having
>} > that.
>}
>} I'm sorry, this is easy to fix... have a set of tools you copy to /ibin
>} that are used for the install (all staticly compiled binaries hopefully)
>} and run the install world out of /ibin... maybe include some binaries
>} for system recovery to make sure...
>
>... but as soon as you run the stuff in /ibin to install the new userland,
>you won't even be able to run a shell script, because the newly installed
>/bin/sh will be using the new signal syscalls.
No, all it means is that the tools to install the new userland need
to have special shellscripts with '#!/ibin/sh' or similar, or be
explicitly invoked (eg /ibin/sh foo). I don't think this is a real
problem.
Peter
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