Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:18:28 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports Message-ID: <20120113141828.GJ31224@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <4F103B8A.3050904@FreeBSD.org> References: <CA%2BdUSyrV_j8GtxS4=yN-DsFCprQ7N%2BEmuRoraDwBLZN1EFFR9w@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BdUSyqZVVyVkVWTPJXJe921NcZ3RaEN9QojH55NhRNP8xDinA@mail.gmail.com> <4F10009A.7000307@FreeBSD.org> <4F100D9E.80807@FreeBSD.org> <CA%2BdUSyrFVn0skisgeJ1pYjHN3wCXC2tqDPoMoqWNqkjAk8DVmA@mail.gmail.com> <4F1024F2.20103@gmail.com> <CA%2BdUSyqW6d%2BLcnHCLyyd_S0CMcRSt22CZ1AYR=MgtJS8quWYBQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F103B8A.3050904@FreeBSD.org>
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--ssm4laEr1iQw2x1G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:11:22PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 13/01/2012 14:57 George Kontostanos said the following: > > Still the question remains regarding COMPAT_FREEBSD8 and how does this > > affects ports/misc/compat8x/ >=20 > Looks like all the previous hints have not been clear enough. > There is no direct relation between COMPAT_FREEBSD8 and misc/compat8x. > COMPAT_FREEBSD<X> options are only needed when going from release X to re= lease X+1 > there was a change to an existing system call at the kernel-userland boun= dary. > A side note: kernel options affect only what's in the kernel, quite obvio= usly. > misc/compat<X>x contains versions of shared libraries from release X that= are no > longer present in X+1. Additional twist is that not every change at the kernel/usermode boundary is covered with backward-compatibility shims. Recent example is the CAM ABI change, which makes libcam.so.5 from the compat8x useless. --ssm4laEr1iQw2x1G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk8QPTIACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4hPrgCgjNIcGnTt2Km8Q5wLFqorOClD 2a8AoM5Bh8fYTcTCiUBeZ3sFJV94/lFC =U/oI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ssm4laEr1iQw2x1G--
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