Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-25 Thread John Polstra
In article <199903170258.saa01...@implode.root.com>, David Greenman wrote: >A much better solution would be for someone to spend the time to > implement the needed VM frobbing of modifying, at BSDI binary exec-time, > the ps_strings address constant in the binary's crt0 that is causing the >

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
David Greenman writes: >If the remaining userland issues are dealt with, then perhaps. It is > currently necessary to rebuild certain utilities after changing this, > however, so making it a simple kernel compile time option isn't sufficient. Are these crash-and-burn-class problems, or is it

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17-Mar-99 Mikhail Teterin wrote: > => > The bug is on the web site, not in the kernel. > I'd consider the web-site a "spec" and the kernel -- "implementation". > By this logic, the kernel needs fixing... I think its a little too rapidly evolving for that, especially -current. > =Probably.

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-16 Thread David Greenman
>"Daniel O'Connor" writes: >> On 17-Mar-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> > The bug is on the web site, not in the kernel. David Greenman >> > committed a patch to better support large memory configurations. >> > Unfortunately, it seems this was not possible to achieve without >> > breaking BSD

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-16 Thread Mikhail Teterin
=> > The bug is on the web site, not in the kernel. I'd consider the web-site a "spec" and the kernel -- "implementation". By this logic, the kernel needs fixing... => > David Greenman committed a patch to better support large memory => > configurations. Unfortunately, it seems this was not po

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Daniel O'Connor" writes: > On 17-Mar-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The bug is on the web site, not in the kernel. David Greenman > > committed a patch to better support large memory configurations. > > Unfortunately, it seems this was not possible to achieve without > > breaking BSDI comp

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17-Mar-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > that bladeenc does not run, the problem is that a BSDI executable > > does not run. Which breaks a promise from > The bug is on the web site, not in the kernel. David Greenman > committed a patch to better support large memory configurations. > Unfort

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Mikhail Teterin writes: > Does not seem a better solution to me at all. The problem is not > that bladeenc does not run, the problem is that a BSDI executable > does not run. Which breaks a promise from > http://www.freebsd.org/features.html The bug is on the web site, not in the kernel. Da

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-15 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Dirk Froemberg once stated: =As a better solution I'll ask the original author for a native FreeBSD =version. Does not seem a better solution to me at all. The problem is not that bladeenc does not run, the problem is that a BSDI executable does not run. Which breaks a promise from http:/

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Smith
> > It seems to work fine except it core dumps on exit for some reason. > Marcel fixed that one a while back; update your system. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 15-Mar-99 Dirk Froemberg wrote: > > So one should either fix the kernel or BROKEN=YES the bladeenc Port or use > > the > > linux executable (if it works at all) > > As a workaround I'll mark bladeenc as BROKEN for FreeBSD-current. > As a better solution I'll ask the original author for a

Re: latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-15 Thread Dirk Froemberg
Hi Michael! On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 05:25:38PM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > just for the record (as it is allready documented ) > the latest -current kernels won't execute bladeenc (/usr/ports/audio/bladeenc) > an MPEG3 encoder. Former kernels did. Yes, this was discussed on freebsd-commi

latest -current doesn't execute BSDI-binary bladeenc

1999-03-15 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, just for the record (as it is allready documented ) the latest -current kernels won't execute bladeenc (/usr/ports/audio/bladeenc) an MPEG3 encoder. Former kernels did. So one should either fix the kernel or BROKEN=YES the bladeenc Port or use the linux executable (if it works at all) Bye! --