Re: NetBSD needs -lcompat to build openssl 0.9.6

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Bodo Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

moeller> I don't know why NetBSD shouldn't have ftime() (it's specified in the
moeller> Open Group's Single UNIX Specification, it's not an obsolete function
moeller> that is maintained merely for compatibility reasons), but the current
moeller> development version has a fix that should solve this problem.

>From the ftime(3) manual under Linux:

  CONFORMING TO
         BSD 4.2
         Under  BSD 4.3, this call is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2).

I think that answers the question why all BSD variants have that in
libcompat these days, don't you think?

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