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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 2004 02:19:57 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, "Reed L. O'Brien" <reedobrien@acm.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD4 COMPAT
Message-ID:  <20040604091957.GA19602@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040604084252.GB85236@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <c9mlbl$a4c$1@sea.gmane.org> <20040604084252.GB85236@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 09:42:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:52:40AM -0400, Reed L. O'Brien wrote:
> > what if I don't compile FreeBSD4 into the FreeBSD5 kernel?
> > do I wind up with problems in the ports??
>=20
> That's not a kernel option.  remember that FreeBSD has an integrated
> kernel and system -- shlibs, standard applications -- and that for
> best results you need to compile both of them (from the same set of
> sources).

Actually I think he's talking about COMPAT_FREEBSD4.  This should only
be needed if you want to run 4.x binaries.

Kris

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