From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 14:18:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581561065670; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from mail.zoral.com.ua (mx0.zoral.com.ua [91.193.166.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9717B8FC17; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from skuns.kiev.zoral.com.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.zoral.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q0DEITWJ024707 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:18:29 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (kostik@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0DEISw5042654; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:18:28 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: (from kostik@localhost) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q0DEISnl042653; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:18:28 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:18:28 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov To: Andriy Gapon Message-ID: <20120113141828.GJ31224@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <4F10009A.7000307@FreeBSD.org> <4F100D9E.80807@FreeBSD.org> <4F1024F2.20103@gmail.com> <4F103B8A.3050904@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ssm4laEr1iQw2x1G" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F103B8A.3050904@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.2 at skuns.kiev.zoral.com.ua X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on skuns.kiev.zoral.com.ua Cc: Johan Hendriks , FreeBSD-Current , freebsd-stable , George Kontostanos Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:36 -0000 --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 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/compatx 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--