Re: /bin/sh arithmetic doesn't seem to like leading 0 now

2012-09-21 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:09:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > $ echo $(( ( $( date +%m ) - 1 ) / 3 + 1 )) > > arithmetic expression: expecting ')': " ( 09 - 1 ) / 3 + 1 " ... > This was done to avoid an inconsistency where co

Re: bash 4.2 patchlevel 28

2012-05-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:07:55PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > Noted that the following syntax is broken somewhere between 4.2 > patchlevel 10 and 28. I'm sure its because we shouldn't be doing that > over here at big purple, but we do ... and its a PITA. I'm bisecting to > find out what is going

Re: amd(8) cores dump when load high

2008-12-29 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:34PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:03:54PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > well, I'm running 7.1-PRERELEASE, what does the amd logs show? > > .. > > > Dec 27 10:37:01 sf-02 amd[856]: am-utils version 6.1.5 (build 1). > > > Dec 27 10:37:01

Re: amd(8) cores dump when load high

2008-12-29 Thread David O'Brien
ry Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. am-utils version 6.1.5 (build 800059). Report bugs to https://bugzilla.am-utils.org/ or am-ut...@am-utils.org. Configured by David O'Brien on date 4-December-

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/netstat Makefile bpf.c inet.c pfkey.c route.c sctp.c

2008-09-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:31:46PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Hi, > The change below seems to make netstat -B on RELENG_7 coredump > netstat -B > > specifically, > > - printf("%5d %6s %7s %9lu %9lu %9lu %5d %5d %s\n", > + printf("%5d %6s %7s %9ju %9ju %9ju

Re: RELENG_7_0 buildworld failure on read only source tree

2008-03-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:19:15PM -0500, Tom Judge wrote: > Thanks for the response, it was indeed just a case of touching > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/contrib/Makefile. Do you have the information > about the relevent change sets that fix this? Then I can merge this fix to > my local tree. Y

Re: gdbserver on latest -STABLE ...

2007-12-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:28:50PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > ===> gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdbserver (clean) > cd: can't cd to /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdbserver > *** Error code 2 > > Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb. > > Or did I catch something 'in between'? Too many architectures, too many Fre

Re: gdbserver on latest -STABLE ...

2007-12-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:28:50PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Is this related to the commit that just went through to enable on arch that > support it? What platform are you using? I did my build testing on a FreeBSD/amd64 RELENG_6 machine

MFC 7.0 calcru changes

2007-08-23 Thread David O'Brien
This is a patch to MFC what I think are all the calcru-related changes that occurred since 6-STABLE was branched and 7.0 continued forward. If anyone spots some changes I missed, please yell out. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Index: amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c ==

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:39:43AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > had nothing but problems with my Promise card. To make matters worse > Promise doesn't support FreeBSD... No drivers, No docs, Nothing. eh??? You don't follow FreeBSD very carefully. Promise sends full docs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I agree. PCIe 8x is a faster bus and it's typically connected directly > to the MCH (north bridge) unlike PCI-X which is stuck on the ICH > (south bridge). This would be for a Northbridge-based system (ie. Intel). For AMD-based mo

Re: bash 3.1.10 breaks configure scripts (was Re: configure scripts ignores parameters)

2006-03-06 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:59:42PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:01:19AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:57:54AM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > > * Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-05 03:41 -0500]: > > > > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at

Re: libstdc++ version bump.

2005-06-28 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:44:02PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Tuesday, 28. June 2005 18:21, Scot Hetzel wrote: > > > Are you sure that the problem is with libstdc++ and not the above > > libraries? > > Yes, it's a well known-fact. In fact there might have been a break of ABI > backwar

Re: libstdc++ version bump.

2005-06-28 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:46:27AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I just got bitten by an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.4 where my apps > linked with c++ stopped working. The solution I had to do was to > copy an old 5.2.1 libstdc++ over my 5.4 one. My question is, why > wasn't the library version bu

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-04-08 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:33:05AM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > I'm sorry to come into this discussion after 58 messages, but this board > has been extensively discussed about 1 year ago, because it gave me trouble > to no end (even with 2Gb). One of the early amd64 developers (not David o

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM? (solved)

2005-04-08 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:09:11AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > The moral of the story is, I suppose, "don't buy the MSI K8T > Master2-FAR". I was warned about the motherboard before I bought it, WHY?? There is nothing wrong with that motherboard -- I have three of them. You are at fault

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:24:29AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 10:32:33 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > >> > >> Heh. Difficult when the system doesn'

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:32:33AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? > > > > Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. > > You could try http://www.memtest86.com although that doesn't do >4G

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:14:45AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > I had 4 bad out of 12 tested where the DIMMs were Crucial PC2700 2GB > > Reg. ECC DIMMs. > > OK, this makes sense. It might also explain why the 4 GB > configuration only recognizes 3.5 GB. No. This is due to the 3.5-4.0GB

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 03:25:37PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Greg: The busdma problems from 5.3-RELEASE are fixed. That doesn't > mean that there are no *other* problems. Scott is saying "the old > busdma bug shouldn't be affecting 5.4-PRE", and he's correct. > > Most likely, something else

Re: CPUTYPE=pentium-m

2005-03-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:30:33PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote: > Jon Noack wrote: > Is it possible GCC compiled with CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp produces bad code? > I guess my BIOS writer could've been on crack, but the machine is rock > solid without CPUTYPE defined so I don't think it is a hardware > problem

Re: CPUTYPE=pentium-m

2005-03-15 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:41:55PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:48:52PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > >>>Are you saying, all we need to do is commit this diff to make everyone's > >>>environment ha

Re: CPUTYPE=pentium-m

2005-03-15 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:12:57PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:48:52PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > >>>Are you saying, all we need to do is commit this diff to make everyone's > >>>environment h

Re: CPUTYPE=pentium-m

2005-03-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:48:52PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > >Are you saying, all we need to do is commit this diff to make everyone's > >environment happy? > > Obviously, I can't speak for everyone. For me, your patch fixes the kernel. Can you try with just -mno-sse2? I'd like to lit

Re: CPUTYPE=pentium-m

2005-03-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:47:08PM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > >i have read that were some problems compiling the kernel and the > >loader with "pentium-m" in CPUTYPE. are they fixed now? > > I'm the one who filed the original bug report: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75898

Re: 5.3-RELEASE (amd64) on LSILogic 1030 / mpt controller.

2005-03-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:45:50PM +0100, Krzysztof Kowalik wrote: > Krzysztof Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm trying, without success, to install the FreeBSD 5.3 on a Sun Fire > > > V40z (it's an amd64 box) on its LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 SCSI controller. > > Interesting. 5.3-RELEASE for

Re: buildworld broken ?

2005-02-28 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:51:34PM +, Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c > > /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c: In function `kvm_proclist': > > /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c:269: warning: assignment makes integer from > > pointer wit

Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread David O'Brien
[ PLEASE don't top post - it losses context, and this is a Unix mailing list] On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:53:24PM -, Alan Jay wrote: > I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to stable > we seemed to have a stable platform when doing basic stuff - we have two > datab

Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:47:27PM -0800, Jonathan A. Dama wrote: > FreeBSD/amd64 is not in my opinion not actually a stable tier 1 quality > release under these configurations, too many problems remain--especially > in regards to ia32 emulation. It is not required for a Tier-1 platform to have 32

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-13 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:00:50PM +0100, S?ren Schmidt wrote: > S?ren Schmidt wrote: > New version that fixes known problems so far etc now available: > http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ata-mk3k.tar.gz .. > As always, enjoy and let me know how it goes... This does indead fix my panic that I reporte

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-13 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:08:33PM +0100, Anthony Ginepro wrote: > - Retrying "call doadump" under a kernel without touching ATA_R_DEBUG, > it worked eventually once and could be canceled. Most of the time, dump > can't be canceled and doesn't progress. > > Should I open a PR so that the issue can

Re: No RAID for VT8237?

2004-11-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:38:19PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: > David O'Brien said: > > > There are many new SATA "RAID" controllers that our ATA driver doesn't > > yet understand the metadata. Soren is working on support for these newer > > chipsets.

Re: Beastie

2004-11-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:25:59PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:23:40PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:16:12PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > It is with a little intrepidation that I ask this question, because I > > > sense th

Re: No RAID for VT8237?

2004-11-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:09:34AM +, Bob Bishop wrote: > You might try an 'atacontrol create '. I had a problem where I'd > defined RAID1 in the BIOS, but 5.3 wouldn't see it (specifically saw the > drives individually but no ar0); after atacontrol create... it all works. > Go fig. This i

Re: Valgrind for FreeBSD

2004-04-23 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:00:30PM +0200, Simon Barner wrote: > After consultation with Doug Rabson, I have created ports for valgrind > (stable version and a more ``bleeding edge'' development version). > > Until they hit the tree (probably after the ports freeze), you can get them > at: > > htt

Alpha 4.8 RC2 -- COME AND GET IT!!

2003-03-18 Thread David O'Brien
Now available at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.8-RC2 and ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.8-RC2 -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: adding athlon xp to bsd.cpu.mk

2001-10-28 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:29:00AM -0800, matt wrote: > any one know if my 4.3 stable work with all AMD > processors, as well as with SMP enabled? Yes it will. I certifed 4.3 RELEASE (and thus 4.3-STABLE) on the SMP Thunder for AMD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Re: time_t definition is worng

2001-06-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:05:18AM +0900, Yoshihiro Koya wrote: > Hello, > > From: "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: time_t definition is worng > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 08:52:37 -0700 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > &

Re: time_t definition is worng

2001-06-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:23:05AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > Yes, I know all that. The problem isn't that you couldn't have an > unsigned time_t, the problem is that there are vast amounts of software > already out there that would "break mysteriously" if you did. So, > like th

Re: how to track stable

2001-04-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:36:20PM -0400, FreeBSD Admin wrote: > Please bear with me. I have tried to understand this process, but still it > is not clear to me. I have read > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current-stable.html > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html > http://www.freebs

Re: Can I stop BUILDWORLD from starting from scratch?

2001-04-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:16:45PM -0700, Christian Chen wrote: > > But why is "something" breaking ? The build process should be clean. If > > not, something is messed in your source code repository. > > Well, I know that when I installed 4.2-RELEASE off of CD, make world > in /usr/src did not

Re: Releases

2001-04-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:38:15PM -0400, Michael R. Rudel wrote: > x.x-BETA is ... notoriously buggy. It has bugs, that's the point of the x.y-GAMMA rather than x.y-BETA might would be a good move. Then we'd have 1/2 the world asking what "GAMMA" means. We could then hit over the head them wit

Re: cvsupped to RELENG_4 but got 4.3-RC

2001-04-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:32:39PM -0500, Brian D. Woodruff wrote: > I quickly learned that RC is for Release Candidate, which would inticate to > me that it's somewhere between CURRENT and RELEASE, but nowhere near STABLE!! Huh? RC means it could easily be _the_ RELEASE. In FreeBSD RC is more

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE schedule

2001-03-21 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:45:12PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > March 20: FreeBSD 4.3-RC (RELEASE CANDIDATE) Jordan, I assume we are now offically in RC mode? And as such this now applies? > I will also categorically state, however, that when I release the RC > this time it will be a def

*sigh* Alpha release broken

2001-03-08 Thread David O'Brien
Setting up /boot directory for kern floppy /R/stage/image.kern/kernel: 63.2% -- replaced with /R/stage/image.kern/kernel.gz sh -e /usr/src/release/scripts/doFS.sh /R/stage/floppies/kern.flp /R/stage /mnt 1440 /R/stage/image.kern 8 fd1440 Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per grou

Re: buildworld failure (3-4-2001 cvsup)

2001-03-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:16:47PM +0200, Alexandr A. Listopad wrote: > Uh, I'm waiting for it... ;{ To tell the truth, I would *HIGHLY* suggest that most users not even try to update their RELENG_4 -STABLE systems for the next 2-3 days. Right before a code freeze there is always a lot of commit

Re: failed to buildworld... (make: don't know how to make build-

2001-03-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 03:42:51PM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > Nope. Forgot to commit the MFC in src/bin/csh > > Will the libdisk, etc. fixes be merged in anytime soon? Make buildworld is > still broken. Still working on it. It would help if my -CURRENT NFS server would stop hanging...

Re: Threaded C++ Question

2001-01-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:54:18PM -0600, Erich Zigler wrote: > > > But I am in the process of porting several C++ apps that are exhibiting > > > truely strange behavior. And I was wondering if this could be the > > > cause. > > I will post a patch -- will you test it? > > Yes. For the test shoul

Re: Threaded C++ Question

2001-01-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:57:24PM -0600, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > That was the same problem I encountered (*sarcasm*) Well that was very helpful. How about telling me how *_I_* can experience it? I'm about to give up and just drop fixing this as no one is able to give me any feedback. --

Re: C++ threaded programs

2001-01-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:21:50PM -0600, Erich Zigler wrote: > > I have been unable to get anyone I've directly asked to actually test it > > (that emailed me saying they have a problem with the current state of the > > world). > > Here is what happened after test1.. This is a program called mq3

Re: C++ threaded programs

2001-01-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:16:49AM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote: > On the other side, I tested Daniel's patch - i.e. -nostdlib in libstdc++ > and it works fine for everything I've tested it with - the only It matters ZILCH that that patch worked for you. What that patch does is just wrong. It

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-08 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:07:49AM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > I thought the space staked out by the *BSD gang was approximately > this: > NetBSD - the least amount of platform-specific code possible; run > on most anything > OpenBSD - pro-active security, bullet-proof from attacks > Fr

Re: Mysql segfaults; is the culprit libstdc++, pthread, regex ...?

2000-12-06 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:06:04PM +0600, Max Khon wrote: > now I can confirm that on latest -stable without "linking shared objects > with libgcc_[r]_pic" changes ACE wrappers tests run correctly without > segfaults. test program ("bad" one) from PR/23252 also does not segfault > anymore. Since

Re: file: table is full

2000-11-29 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:10:25AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > If 'maxusers' is less than 128, bump that up first. Then you can try > defining MAXFILES in your config file if you still hit the limit; check > the output of 'sysctl kern.maxfiles' to find what it's currently at. You can also do it

Re: Password Encryption Problems

2000-11-29 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:26:56PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > Last week, I installed a new user and its password seems to be > definitely encrypted by DES, but today's encrypted passwords seems to > be MD5 although I did not change anything I assume this was mentioned in the 4.2 Release notes --

Re: 4.2-RELEASE CD from ISO

2000-11-28 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:17:01PM -0500, Bill Pechter wrote: > However I couldn't mount it under Solaris... Any ideas what I did wrong. Not w/o you telling the command you used and the error(s) produced... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in th

Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-23 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 06:43:33AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > can someone remember me the problem w/ DD ? Geez, we've just had a 30 message thread that stated many times the problem with dang.ded. drives. > well, I don't have tested anything since I don't have any free drive to burn, > but

Re: Cannot make buildworld

2000-11-21 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 08:58:14AM +0100, Jose Luis Arbona Orovay wrote: > Is this documented ? If you kept up with this mailing list, you would have known this problem. That is why I just gave the "what to do" rather than give an explanation. Please review the recent archives when you have a pro

Re: Removal of Disklabel

2000-11-20 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:59:15PM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: > I know of no Unix variant with more than 8 partitions/ disk OpenBSD has 16 / disk. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Problems with ports

2000-11-20 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:48:05PM -, Pedro Almeida wrote: > Hi all! This belongs in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please ask this there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: cd /usr/ports; make clean

2000-11-19 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:35:27AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > I'm sure to be off my rocker to suggest something like this 2 days > before -RELEASE, but sometimes I don't clean up after installing a port ^^ WHY are you post

Re: 4.2-RC1 not (easily) bootable

2000-11-19 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Yesterday I installed the 4.2 RC1 in dangerously dedicated > mode on a SCSI disk I had lying around. Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerously dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave spa

Re: New US CVSup mirrors

2000-11-17 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:34:14PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Super. I know this has come up before, but what if you also added a few > overloaded A records for those who want to spread the load automatically, > and do it in a somewhat random way. Since you know it has come up before, please

Re: libc shlib version

2000-11-15 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:49:39PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > This makes it harder to deal with mixed environments, but not hugely > so. Can you expand on this? > We're not supposed to have major libc bumps in -stable. I'm not aware of this rule since the switch to ELF. I don't believe it is

Re: ftpd from BSDI 4.1

2000-11-15 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:52:39PM +, Kaltashkin Eugene wrote: > When in FreeBSD be ftpd server from BSDI 4.1 ? > Him support virtual servers and very customisable config. It is my intention to change FreeBSD's ftpd to the Luke M. version in NetBSD. Luke's ftpd provides a very, very nice alt

Re: libc shlib version

2000-11-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:15:49PM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > Hmm. That's a good point. So you mean there is no way to build a > libc that works for 4.2 that will also work with a 4.0 kernel? Yes. > (I don't think just changing the libc source on a 4.0 machine will > accom

Re: libc shlib version (consensus?)

2000-11-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:03:19PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > Is the bump going to happen before 4.2 or not? I don't know. I'd like to hear Satoshi's response to my last email on the topic. The typical test [in this case] would be does a 4.0R shared binary still run fine on a 4.2-R syst

Re: 4.1.1-STABLE buildworld fails on libiberty.a

2000-11-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:42:46PM -0500, Jon Nathan wrote: > i'm trying to upgrade a 3.2 box to 4.x. when i tried make buildworld, > it bailed on miniperl. so i tried -DNOPERL, as suggested in the lists: Upgrade to RELENG_3 first. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: Is sockstat broken in -stable?

2000-11-09 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 09:18:01AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > On a -stable system from October 31, I'm seeing this from sockstat: I get the same on my Nov 5th Alpha -current box, but not on my Nov 5th -current i386 box. Also on my Oct 31st 4.1.1-STABLE Alpha box. I would say it is an Alpha pr

Re: burnt by the new crtbegin ?

2000-11-01 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 12:50:09PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > cd /usr/src/lib/csu/i386-elf > > make cleandir ; make cleandir ; make obj ; make depend ; make all install > > cd /usr/src/gnu/lib/csu > > make cleandir ; make cleandir ; make obj ; make depend ; make all install > > This is a wor

** HEADS UP ** changes to /usr/lib/crt*.o

2000-10-30 Thread David O'Brien
I'm about to MFC this. Again, please run as many old apps as you can to see if this causes any problems. - Forwarded message from David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am switching us from using or native crt{begin,end}.c to GCC's crtstuff.c in the building of /

Re: making a RELEASE

2000-08-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:42:50AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > I cvsup-ed all src collections, including ports and doc (i.e. src-all, > > doc-all and ports-all). ... > > Wich path should I give to CVSROOT dir ? > > You need to download the the cvs collections, not the "checked-out" > colle

Re: bioscall.s

2000-07-17 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:20:29PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > Could someone please offer a brief explanation about the nature of > the change to the binutils? Binutils 2.10.0 now accepts (read requires) proper AT&T ASM syntax. Previous versions required a bastardized syntax that was neither p

Re: buildworld problems (4.0-RELEASE to 4.0-STABLE)

2000-07-17 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:55:57PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The box either reboots part-way through, or I see something like this : The machine either has a serious problem, or your /usr/src/* is not consistent with the bits that make up RELENG_4 (4-STABLE), or your /usr/obj/* contains c

Re: bioscall.s

2000-07-17 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:58:06AM -0400, Keith Mackay wrote: > Is there a known issue in bioscall.s? Yes, it has been documented all over the place in this mailing list. It is also documented in /usr/src/UPDATING. You should review the expectations of running -STABLE and consider if you are bet

Re: random.h - again...

2000-07-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:00:14PM -0400, Joakim Ryden wrote: > Hi all, > I cvsupped - built and installed world and went to make a new kernel. The > kernel build fails with: > ===> syscons/fire > make: don't know how to make machine/random.h. Stop > *** Error code 2 I cannot reproduce this. Can

Re: restarting buildworld

2000-07-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:31:47AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > Is there a way to start buildworld without having it remove and rebuild the > > /usr/obj directory? > > There are bunches of command line options in /usr/src/Makefile*. I believe > the one you want is 'make -DNOCLEAN' but read th

Re: Problems with make world

2000-07-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:36:33PM -0400, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > the error: > cc -O6 -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/usr.bin/ar -Wall -I/usr/obj/usr/ ^^ Would you care to explain to me just what the hell you think you are achieving with "-O6"??? For one, no released versio

Re: kernel build fail

2000-07-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:47:19PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > make build/installkernel. All's well except now Linux emulation is > > broken. Any linux app produces: > > ELF interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found > > Abort trap > > I believe this is caused by a change in how we brand bin

Re: kernel build fail

2000-07-12 Thread David O'Brien
> Ted Sikora wrote: > > I just installed 4.0-RELEASE and cvsup'ed to STABLE. The kernel build > > fails with an Assembler error. I always do a kernel build before a > > makeworld. I hate to break tradition. > > Then you should wait for 4.1-RELEASE to come out and install that (in > this case). Yo

Re: More optimization issues?

2000-07-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:48:33PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > While porting another program, I found the following: > Using the default CXXFLAGS (-O -pipe): > $ g++ -O -pipe ud2cd.cc -o ud2cd I don't believe this... (*sigh*). Remove the "-O" and it compiles fine on both -CURRENT and a 4

Re: Compiler problems with -O2 (was Re: CVS Trouble, even under 4.0-RELEASE (alpha) HELP!)

2000-03-22 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:03:09PM -0500, Howard Leadmon wrote: > want to avoid, or at least note the problem with -O2 as I have been using > that when making software on my Intel machines for a long time, so just > assumed it was OK to do the same on the Alpha.. It isn't officially OK from the

Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?)

2000-01-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:48:08AM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > UCB and AT&T had agreed that there were to be no new releases of BSD > and that 4BSD was the final release. 4.1BSD - 4.4BSD were named such > because they were "officially" only modifications to 4BSD and

Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:42:04PM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote: > Follow the link, dude. ..snip.. > David O'Brien had the audacity to say: > > But your table doesn't say which compiler was used for what. > > Thus I can't tell what that table is telling me. My ap

Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
> Well, GCC 2.95.x can be patched for pentium, ppro, and k6 optimization > to make your programs run faster and more efficiently. If you could > compile the base system with it, you would glean more performance from > the box. If you go to http://www.goof.com/pcg/ you can see what I'm > talking ab

Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
Brad please don't spread falsness. On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 02:19:10PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > There are also some issues with laptops and PC Cards, especially > CardBus cards. No version of FreeBSD does or ever has supported CardBus. So there can't be any 4.0 issues here. There are issues

Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:40:54AM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote: > Obviously, you have never tried to make world with the new egcs, it is almost WHY do you need to make world with GCC 2.95.2? Gcc 2.7.2 acutally produces smaller code. For some things even faster code. What is so glammorous about a

Re: vim-5.5.67

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 04:53:14PM +, Mark Ovens wrote: > Use the vim-lite port, or build vim5 using > > # make LITE=yes install > > (which is all the vim-lite port does) Acutally if you build Vim locally on an X-less machine, the X11 support will keep out since you don't the libs + hea

Re: 4.4 BSD forever?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:38:05AM -0800, Joseph Scott wrote: > > Perhaps we should skip version 4.4 of FreeBSD out of respect for our > fore fathers. ( IE: release versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5 ). > > It would kind of feel strange to have a release version of 4.4 for > FreeBSD.

Re: 4.4 BSD forever?

2000-01-10 Thread David O'Brien
> >the 5.x releases, I'm gonna have to think about taking down > >the ole poster with `4.4 > 5.4' on it > > > >(not that that would be a *bad* thing, I just wonder if I can > >find where said poster is hanging in this mess) > > Your Mt. Xinu poster is being underutilized (and underappreciated

Re: /sbin/dhclient-script and llinfo error

1999-12-08 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:23:54AM -0500, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > I asked the same question abot a month ago and didn't get an answer. A > quick search of the archives will find some others with the same > problem. It seems to I got the report, but got busy and forgot about it (as it has neve

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 12:24:53PM -0800, Duane H. Hesser wrote: > A few still have 'local' hardwired in, but after many years of ... > The X11 situation is not quite as rosy; there have been quite a > few which needed hand patching. The problem seems to be a lot of > Imakefiles with BINDIR, INC

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:34:23PM -0800, Mike Meyer wrote: > Except, of course, that /usr/local/lib *does* get special treatment! > It's listed in ldconfig_paths (and the aout subdir > ldconfig_paths_aout), along with /usr/X11R6/lib & > /usr/lib/compat. None of those are part of the OS, though al

Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.

1999-11-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:14:04PM -0800, Mike Meyer wrote: > ;->It belongs in /usr/local. > > I don't agree. Things being maintainted and supported locally belong > in /usr/local. Ports and packages come on the distribution, and you go > back to the same channels for support as you do for core p

Re: installworld : problem 1 (softupdates)

1999-08-22 Thread David O'Brien
> > Softupdates doesn't buy you anything on reads -- just writes. So unless > > you have it turned on for / because /tmp is on /, you aren't getting > > anything out of softupdates than frustration. > > Does softupdates score you something over MFS for /tmp ? Nope. MFS's are async by default.

**HEADS UP** libreadline version number reverted

1999-08-20 Thread David O'Brien
On 19-Aug-1999 I bumped the shared library major version number from "3" to "4" when I MFC'ed libreadline-4.0. It has been deemed that the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was not suffient to warrant the version number bump. Thus I have reverted it back to "3". Those that