From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 5:19:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay2.adelphia.net (smtprelay2.adelphia.net [64.8.25.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664CF37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 05:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGPZL702.OBW; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:19:55 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6JCHTt00601; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:17:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:17:29 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: Neil Darlow Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Source Update is incomplete? Message-ID: <20010719081729.A360@localhost> References: <20010718.18511400@ideal.darlow.co.uk> <20010718200516.H51074@localhost> <20010719.7370000@ideal.darlow.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010719.7370000@ideal.darlow.co.uk>; from neil@darlow.co.uk on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:37:00AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As it was put forth by Neil Darlow on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:37:00AM +0000... > Hi Ian and others, > > Thank you for your suggestions. > > Re. the compat libs, there are COMPAT(1X|20|21|22|3X|4X) definitions > in /etc/defaults/make.conf. > > I haven't come across any good documentation on these so which do I > need to enable. I'm guessing that these are for compatibility with > older versions of FreeBSD and if I'm not running anything from 3.x, > and earlier, should I just enable COMPAT4X? > > I understand the primary purpose of the FreeBSD source tree is to create > releases but it would be nice to have documentation on the files that > are obsoleted by this version (so that they may be more easily deleted). > > Regards, > Neil Darlow. > > -- > 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow > GPG fingerprint = 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 > > > On 7/19/01, 1:05:16 AM, User & Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > > I'm going to guess here, but there is a section in /etc/make.conf that > > asks if you wnat to install compat libs for 4x. Maybe this needs to be > > uncommented? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message There is a list that sends out what files were changed and other differences in the OS from release to release. Check www.freebsd.org and check under mailing lists for the list. The cvs list is the one you want. Before enabling COMPAT4X I would check this list and see if these files were just taken out or moved to a new location. I'm not sure what COMPAT4X is used for but I know that a COMPAT? was needed for Netscape to build. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message