You need to recompile libc with new kernel (svn commit: r231506 - in head: . lib/libc/net)

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 11 06:24:00 UTC 2012


On 02/10/2012 22:21, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 
> On 11. Feb 2012, at 06:19 , Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> On 02/10/2012 22:15, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> as the UPDATING message says, if you updated your HEAD between 2011-12-15 and now
>>> you need to recompile libc again with the new kernel.  If you are updating from
>>> outside that window, especially from any STABLE branch, things should be a lot more
>>> happy now, which (in addition to make the interface extensible) was the main reason
>>> for another breakage in HEAD.
>>
>> Does this fix the broken ifconfig on new kernel + old world?
> 
> Amongst other things, yes.

Awesome, thanks! It bit me again recently, but fortunately I knew the
answer already.


Doug

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