On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Kostik Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:11:22PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 13/01/2012 14:57 George Kontostanos said the following: >> > Still the question remains regarding COMPAT_FREEBSD8 and how does this >> > affects ports/misc/compat8x/ >> >> Looks like all the previous hints have not been clear enough. >> There is no direct relation between COMPAT_FREEBSD8 and misc/compat8x. >> COMPAT_FREEBSD<X> options are only needed when going from release X to >> release X+1 >> there was a change to an existing system call at the kernel-userland >> boundary. >> A side note: kernel options affect only what's in the kernel, quite >> obviously. >> misc/compat<X>x contains versions of shared libraries from release X that >> are no >> longer present in X+1. > > Additional twist is that not every change at the kernel/usermode boundary > is covered with backward-compatibility shims. Recent example is the CAM > ABI change, which makes libcam.so.5 from the compat8x useless.
Thanks to all for your input. It looks quite obvious to me know and I think this clears any further confusion. Best Regards, George _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
