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            Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: 
: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: >             Joe Marcus Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > : On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:38, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > : >             Joe Marcus Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > : > : On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:22, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > : > : > In message: 
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: > : > : >             Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > : > : > : Is it statically linked?
: > : > : > 
: > : > : > Yup.
: > : > : 
: > : > : You'll need to rebuild against the new libc_r, then.
: > : > 
: > : > Yuck.  I'd rather nail jello to a tree than try to update a port that
: > : > complicated.
: > : 
: > : If it makes you feel better, I just ran a compile on my -CURRENT
: > : machine, and it went fine.  Both mozilla and mozilla-devel should build
: > : out of the tree....with or without jello.
: > 
: > Do you know if this breaks libc_r.so.4.0 too?  I'm thinking of just
: > grabbing the build from Mozilla.org...
: 
: I think it does since it's a kernel ABI breakage in ucontext_t's
: and sigreturn().  I think we either need to reformat the ucontext_t
: in some way that is compatible with the old format, or make a
: new sigreturn() using the current one for compatibility.  It's
: a shame 'cause it's only broken for i386, not the other archs.

I think that would be an excellent idea.  I think that there are
enough libc_r applications for 4.x that we need to retain binary
compatibility at this level.  Otherwise we're going to be raked over
the coals.

Warner

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