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Scott Long has named 4.10-RELEASE yesterday and now the source tree has been tagged. The long awaited release has included the lastest FreeBSD -STABLE improvements, security updates, stablity improvements, and so on.

It seems (still can’t access to the Internet right now, however, HTTP and cvsup works) that OpenBSD has imported gdb 6.1 into their source tree. I am not sure whether they did some hacks to the source repository (from cvsup result, there is not), but the result is really strange. It seems that the last import was done by using a “cvs add -rCYGNUS” and not “cvs import”…

I hope FreeBSD can import a newer gdb ASAP, as well as gcc 3.4 series.

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des         2004/05/18 23:40:52 PDT

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4_7)
    .                    UPDATING 
  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4_8)
    .                    UPDATING 
  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4_9)
    .                    UPDATING 
  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_5_0)
    .                    UPDATING 
  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_5_1)
    .                    UPDATING 
  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_5_2)
    .                    UPDATING 
  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4_7)
    sys/conf             newvers.sh 
  Log:
  Bump and document patch level.
  
  Approved by:    so
  
  Revision        Changes    Path
  1.73.2.74.2.31  +3 -0      src/UPDATING
  1.73.2.80.2.24  +3 -0      src/UPDATING
  1.73.2.89.2.9   +3 -0      src/UPDATING
  1.229.2.27      +3 -0      src/UPDATING
  1.251.2.19      +3 -0      src/UPDATING
  1.282.2.15      +3 -0      src/UPDATING
  1.44.2.26.2.29  +1 -1      src/sys/conf/newvers.sh

很想知道是怎么commit的……

If everything goes ok, then FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE would be released by the end of this week. Now we are at RC3.

Yes, you did saw the truth. There are some Open Source projects from Microsoft’s staff. I’m not sure whether this is permitted by the official authority, however, there is, licensed under CPL (Not GPL), which is an Open Source Initiative approved Open Source License.

To summarize the release engineering process: 4.10-RC3 has delayed again so 4.10-RELEASE won’t be released soon. Recently, RELENG_4_10 branch has received several critical bugfixes. I personally requested a MFC for a security vulnerablity related with timedc, and Tim has MFC’ed some other security related fixes. Matthew Dillon has submitted some VM patches (committed by Ken Smith) and they all get into RC3.

发现VC上面偶尔会用到的const_cast在gcc (c++)里面竟然不能用，郁闷，遂采用C-style cast，但我希望修正这个问题。

绕过liu8han的maintainership commit了无数次之后，终于让GD可以make了，哈哈哈哈~~~

从今天起谁导致无法make就请客！

以前觉得Ruslan Ermilov (ru at FreeBSD dot org, mdoc(7) maintainer)一般只是commit一些Makefile，在整个project里面不过是一个做简单maintain工作的角色，真到自己动手写Makefile的时候才发现，想把Makefile写好可真是太难了。

I have employed the following (ugly) script for MFC’ing, as I do not want to really make big difference between FreeBSD and my fork version: