Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 08:32:06 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: buildkernel is broken Message-ID: <20130705153206.GA85816@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20130705130338.GD67810@FreeBSD.org> References: <20130703003535.GA69779@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20130703004650.GA69868@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <F89E331CBC7E42AA8CDC113DC75F5B97@FreeBSD.org> <20130703034516.GA70409@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20130705130338.GD67810@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:03:38PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 08:45:16PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > S> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:51:57PM -0230, Jonathan Anderson wrote: > S> > On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 22:16, Steve Kargl wrote: > S> > > It seems that > S> > > > S> > > # Enable FreeBSD7 compatibility syscalls > S> > > options COMPAT_FREEBSD7 > S> > > > S> > > is required in a kernel config file. If it is mandatory to > S> > > have this option on FreeBSD 10, it may be appropriate to > S> > > expand the comment to > S> > > > S> > > > S> > > # Enable FreeBSD7 compatibility syscalls > S> > > # This option is MANDATORY. Do not remove. > S> > > options COMPAT_FREEBSD7 > S> > > S> > So... a non-optional option? > S> > S> Yes, it appears to be that way. > > Not really. It is required only if you also got COMPAT_43, the > pre-FreeBSD compat option. > So, it's essentially non-optional as the comment above COMPAT_43 is # # Implement system calls compatible with 4.3BSD and older versions of # FreeBSD. You probably do NOT want to remove this as much current code # still relies on the 4.3 emulation. Is "do NOT want to remove" too strong of a statement? -- Steve
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