Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:15:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: __FreeBSD_version hairsplitting [was Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221114190.59616-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990622164012.A817@bitbox.follo.net>
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:29:02AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > > > how does that not use __FreeBSD_version? Ports do that. And most of
> > > > the time, with any changes, it is not the API that changes but the
> > > > ABI.
> > >
> > > There are other mechanisms than __FreeBSD_version for handling that.
> > > __FreeBSD_version is for handling API differences; it is at source
> > > level.
> >
> > Look at the latest pidentd port. How could that be done without __FreeBSD_\
> > version? I'm _NOT_ converting pidentd to *blech *autoconf.
>
> pidentd is abusing kernel memory as an API. This is still an API change.
>
> The ABI is the binary interface that an executable can expect. If this
> change, the executable need to be recompiled. If the API didn't change
> along with the ABI, it can be recompiled from the same sources to generate a
> new working executable.
As for pidentd, I'm going to have a sysctl to get socket credentials soon...
As for the argument itself... *waves the white flag*
>
> Eivind.
>
>
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