64btt cvsup?

[John Polstra]

On 26-Feb-2004 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:02:42PM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
>> 
>> Lots of things can go wrong here.
> 
> Note that there has just been a flag day in 5.2-CURRENT that required
> everyone to rebuild everything linked to libc_r (or take libmap
> countermeasures).  Before that, in 5.1-CURRENT the change to fstatfs()
> required everyone to rebuild everything that called that function
> (with no workarounds available).
> 
> The impact of this change is hardly unprecedented, and when discussed
> here there was strong consensus that we should just take the hit and
> do it now before 5.x-STABLE comes along and we lose the justification
> for breaking binary compatibility.

OK, this wouldn't be the first time I'd been overly cautious. :-}

John