Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:13:31 +0200 From: George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports Message-ID: <CA%2BdUSyobDRgtRZi%2BL_kDnXwkixCs6waCyk0-rOiD=8a0ViCbKA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120113141828.GJ31224@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> 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> <20120113141828.GJ31224@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >> >> 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 release X+1 >> there was a change to an existing system call at the kernel-userland boundary. >> A side note: kernel options affect only what's in the kernel, quite obviously. >> 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. Thanks to all for your input. It looks quite obvious to me know and I think this clears any further confusion. Best Regards, George
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