Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 20:24:54 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106172008350.99850-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010617080851.E484339E9@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Will Andrews wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:20:25PM -0700, Peter Wemm (peter@FreeBSD.org) wrot > e: > > > Log: > > > Revise wording of osreldate.h vs kernel warning to make it clear that it > > > is a userland-only header. > > > > I thought we only use sys/param.h to get __FreeBSD_version, > > including in userland. > > Yes, we do. But there are some very badly behaved packages out there that > are still trying to carry the old legacy interface forward. These seem to be actually the well behaved packages. __FreeBSD_version seems to be documented only in /usr/share/examples/FreeBSD_version/, and only <osreldate.h> is mentioned there. <osreldate.h> is less evil than <sys/param.h>. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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