Theo wants to remove libcompat.a and I agree. For those who don't know, libcompat is a small static library with compatibility stubs for a handful of long obsolete, forgotten APIs from the 1980s: Modern replacement: * gtty(3), stty(3) -> tcgetattr(3) etc. * re_comp(3), re_exec(3) -> regcomp(3) etc. * ftime(3) -> gettimeofday(2) * cuserid(3) -> getpwuid(3) etc. * setruid(3), setrgid(3) -> setreuid(2) etc. * rexec(3) -> rcmd(3) etc.
Nothing should still use these. Anything that does is probably so crufty that we should consider removing it, or otherwise it can be fixed. sthen@ has (been) volunteered to find all ports that still require libcompat and will provide a list in the next few days. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de