Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:41:16 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org, tim@bishnet.net Subject: misc/dnetc and compat Message-ID: <cb5206420510291341s2ad196b7gdf28cbda351ea847@mail.gmail.com>
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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?
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