pm3-base, cvsup, etc. on -CURRENT [patch]
Don Lewis
truckman at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 30 20:22:18 UTC 2007
On 30 Jul, Don Lewis wrote:
> The Modula 3 ports recently stopped working on -CURRENT because of a
> change to the i386 machine-dependent kernel code removed a kludge that
> the pm3 garbage collector was using to find the fault address when
> accesses were made to protected pages. The correct fix for this is to
> convert the garbage collector to using sigaction() with the SA_SIGINFO
> flag so that it can get the address in a supported fashion. A further
> problem is that the pm3-base port can't be built with GCC 4.2, which is
> the base compiler in current. The patch below addresses both of these
> issues,
[snip]
Does this change deserve a port version bump? Ordinarily I would say
no, because the only effect is to get the port working on -CURRENT,
*but* I've heard that the same kernel kludge removal might be coming to
6.2-STABLE for compatibility with the Wine port. It might be helpful if
6.2-STABLE users automagically get pm3-base upgraded before the kernel
change breaks cvsup.
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