On 1/2/19 12:02 PM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > >> FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r331659: Thu Mar 29 12:31:36 EDT 2018 amd64 >> >> to CURRENT (as of last midnight. >> Does this, in src/UPDATING: >> >> [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries >> needed to do an installworld, you must include the >> COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in your kernel. [...] > >> (It seems ... irrational ... one would need compatibility stuff >> going back to FreeBSD 4 to rebuild/update FreeBSD 13.) > > No, COMPAT_FREEBSD4 is not needed. Maybe COMPAT_FREEBSD11 is needed.
Yes, that text needs to be made more generic to say that you will need COMPAT_FREEBSD<N-1>. Though we've also had some major branches that didn't get a COMPAT_FREEBSD<N> option. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
