Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--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--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20120113141828.GJ31224>