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From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>
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Subject: misc/dnetc and compat
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There's a situation with misc/dnetc.

It is a closed-source port, compiled for 4.11. Those
who wish to run it on 5.x must have
COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option compiled in their kernel,
otherwise they'll get a bad syscall and a core dump.

Some time ago I filed a bug report for that
(http://bugs.distributed.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3D3875)
and a developer compiled a version for 5.x. It is
available from this page:

http://distributed.net/download/prerelease.php
http://http.distributed.net/pub/dcti/prerelease/rc/dnetc496-freebsd5-x86-el=
f.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.distributed.net/pub/dcti/prerelease/rc/dnetc496-freebsd5-x86-elf.=
tar.gz

Therefore, to use these compiled binaries, we can:

* install it automatically for 5.3 or higher
* introduce some option for it
* introduce a new port, something like dnetc-devel

Personally, I like the first option.

What do you think?