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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:18:28 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:36:29 -0600, ajtiM wrote:
> O.K. I will rebuild a kernel but my question is why is not options for FreeBSD 
> 8 as default, please?

All the kernel functions present in v8 are also present
in v9, so there is no need to a compatibility option
inside the kernel. The compat-8x _port_ delivers the
compatibility for libraries (versions and their calls)
that have changed from v8 to v9.




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Polytropon
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