Re: sbrk(2) broken

From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:55:08 -0800
> "Sidegrading" is supposed to work now in HEAD; with a little hacking,
> you can build an amd64 world and kernel on the i386 world, install the
> kernel, reboot, and install world.  AFAIK, the required hacking involves
> copying /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 to /libexec/ld-elf32.so.1 ...

I wonder when we'll have to standardize /libexec/<arch>/ to support
multiple architectures for things like ld-elf.so.1.  It used to only
be a concern for those rare people running diskless over multiple
architectures, but the case of i386 binaries on amd64 is a little
more common.

On the other hand, if ld-elf.so.1 is fairly unique in this
concern, it might be simpler to rename it to:
    ld-elf-{i386,amd64,ppc,...}.so.1

Tim Kientzle
Received on Fri Jan 04 2008 - 16:55:22 UTC

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