Subject: Re: constifying stdlib.h made building stable tools fail on current
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/24/2004 17:12:54
In article <20040524151903.GA3881@himo.salmi.ch>,
Jukka Salmi <jukka-netbsd@2004.salmi.ch> wrote:
>Jukka Salmi --> current-users (2004-05-10 12:58:16 +0200):
>> the changes to src/include/stdlib.h after revision 1.64 made building stable
>> tools fail on a current system.
>
>(the functions involved are cgetent(), cgetfirst() and cgetnext();
>for details see PR 25544)
>
>What is the right way to solve this problem? Should the stable sources be
>modified to match -current prototypes? Or is it just "not supported" to
>build stable tools on -current?
>
>
>Help is appreciated.
>
>Jukka
>
>-- 
>bashian roulette:
>$ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~

I don't know. Providing backwards compatibility for something like this
seems to require a lot of overhead. Why not upgrade to the current tools
if you are going to be using current?

christos