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Date:      Fri, 2 Jan 2015 09:59:04 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        Claude Buisson <claude.buisson1@free.fr>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: COMPAT_FREEBSD8 [was: Re: IPSec and racoon issue...]
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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.

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



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