Re: HEADSUP: /etc/malloc.conf format change

2012-04-26 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:43:59AM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: > On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > So you removed _malloc_options that was part of the documented > > programming API, while some software made use of it. [...] > > Please explore the possibility to add backwards com

Re: HEADSUP: /etc/malloc.conf format change

2012-04-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:37:36PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > The Ports maintainers will run "experimental" ports builds on the > port build clusters to help verify potentially disruptive changes > like this before they are committed. Well, actually, portmgr@. Send a PR with [exp-run] in the Sy

Re: HEADSUP: /etc/malloc.conf format change

2012-04-25 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Apr 25, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Jason Evans wrote: > > On a related note, is there any way to find all ports that refer to > _malloc_options without extracting source for all of them? I considered > being proactive about finding software that depends on _malloc_options, but > no tractable appr

Re: HEADSUP: /etc/malloc.conf format change

2012-04-25 Thread Jason Evans
On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > So you removed _malloc_options that was part of the documented > programming API, while some software made use of it. > > While removing part of the documented API was definitely a bad > idea, you didn't provide any mean to detect this change >

Re: HEADSUP: /etc/malloc.conf format change

2012-04-25 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:34:20PM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: > As a result of the recent jemalloc update, the format for > /etc/malloc.conf has changed. If your system has an old-style > /etc/malloc.conf, you will want to delete it prior to > installworld, and optionally re-create it using the new

HEADSUP: /etc/malloc.conf format change

2012-04-17 Thread Jason Evans
As a result of the recent jemalloc update, the format for /etc/malloc.conf has changed. If your system has an old-style /etc/malloc.conf, you will want to delete it prior to installworld, and optionally re-create it using the new format after rebooting. See malloc.conf(5) for details (specific