Re: New Kernel Breaks IPFW

Ian Freislich wrote:
> Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> > Ian,
> >
> > The new ipfw binary will work with an up-to-date kernel. What you need to
> > do is boot this new kernel and only then try out the new ipfw binary.
> 
> That doesn't really explain why the new ipfw binary core dumped
> with the new kernel, but worked fine with old kernels.
> 
> Now that I've removed BDECFLAGS, it seems that my buildworld will
> succeed and whatever it was that was broken that ipfw linked in
> (statically) will hopefully be fixed and all will be good in my
> land of -CURRENT, for the moment that is.

It was the wrong header file; I said that before.  When world is
built, it uses the chroot installed header files that come from
/usr/src/include; when you build an individual command in situ,
it uses the old, stale, evil, nasty, bad, wrong header files from
/usr/include.

-- Terry