Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 20:42:11 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Claude Buisson <claude.buisson1@free.fr> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: COMPAT_FREEBSD8 [was: Re: IPSec and racoon issue...] Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vauJCNvxMZ_%2BVtLHTEy-1qHunsZTs=px2Cr-p=0gzLag@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54A719FE.4070307@free.fr> References: <CAHnbxSQuFqHqLLP%2Bh62mChN4hnP9gkWb%2BtKFoeYpAxoo9zqpHw@mail.gmail.com> <620F82BB-1D53-4F2A-9C67-51D5EC3C3144@lists.zabbadoz.net> <CAHnbxST4wYPGQUhggiAza1R-5pNj87oOr4pNHhigyD%2BSKO_Zjg@mail.gmail.com> <7A7DD8BC-D990-4C6A-8452-F8336ECB7D08@lists.zabbadoz.net> <CAHnbxSQd8D6QWO_W7neAjkXycvPipJnKyfJ-5iZ6c49KhJhFBg@mail.gmail.com> <0717155F-4247-467A-A37D-FF1F34104403@orthanc.ca> <20150102150945.P82172@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <CAN6yY1vmQ7EqAgWLMTJWrsMunfQOOqpjE97tjGAzaUZYcrK4ow@mail.gmail.com> <54A6820D.503@free.fr> <20150102232655.O82172@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <CAN6yY1twnFv-c5Oq0G8hcWkNODDBEVEAGDJyX%2BsPJy2R%2BkD3MQ@mail.gmail.com> <54A719FE.4070307@free.fr>
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On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Claude Buisson <claude.buisson1@free.fr> wrote: > On 01/02/2015 18:59, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:33:33 +0100, Claude Buisson wrote: >>> > On 01/02/2015 05:49, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> > > >>> > > Thanks to the magic of symbol versioning, I don't think there has a >>> > > COMPAT_FREEBSD8 or COMPAT_FREEBSD9. With luck and care, there >>> should >>> never >>> > > be one again. >>> > >>> > Have a look at sys/conf/NOTES in -head, to find: >>> > >>> > COMPAT_FREEBSD9 >>> > COMPAT_FREEBSD10 >>> > >>> > added by r273603 on Oct 24 >>> > >>> > but no COMPAT_FREEBSD8 >>> >>> Interesting, thanks guys. Maybe 8 and 9 come to the same thing in this >>> respect. FWIW, pascal binaries built on 8.2 i386 run fine on 9.3 amd64, >>> but mine are just maths and file I/O. Not sure why I was surprised .. >>> >>> cheers, Ian >>> >>> >> How odd! 10-STABLE has no reference to COMPAT_FREEBSD9. >> >> Very few things should need any COMPAT_FREEBSD options. For a long time on >> 8 and 9 I only needed COMPAT_FREEBSD for a single port. >> >> > In my understanding, the COMPAT_FREEBSDxx kernel options are not for ports, > but apply to the kernel syscalls interface and are needed to run old > binaries > compiled on previous versions of FreeBSD. This is different from the > libraries > versionning. > > I'll try to take a look at why COMPAT_FREEBSD9 and 10 have been added to >> head. >> -- >> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired >> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com >> > > CBu > You are correct. Senior moment here confusing the kernel COMPAT_FREEBSD options with the misc/compat ports. And now I understand why no COMPAT_FREEBSD9 option is needed in 10 but is in head. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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