Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs)

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Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>
Date
16 Jun 2006 06:28:46
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Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs)
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20060616062841.GA2193@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE


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On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:20:49PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:59:38PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > In message <4491C2F0.6000007@rogers.com>, Mike Jakubik writes:
> > > >What about COMPAT_43TTY? Is this still needed, how exactly does it
> > > >affect the system?
> > >
> > > It adds a bunch of ancient-compatible ioctls to the kernel.
> > >
> > > It is, as a principle, not needed, but thanks to the many variants
> > > of "sh configure" employed in usr/ports, a quite large number of
> > > ports go "Ohh, this is BSD, I'd better use the old ioctls" and
> > > break if you don't offer them.
> >
> > Is there a way to easily identify these ports? I've had both lines commented
> > out of my kernel configs for some time and haven't seen any port breakage on
> > either 6.x or -current.
>
> I did a full build for phk some time ago, I don't remember how many
> broke but it was enough to make it a significant (but perhaps not
> difficult) task to fix them.
>

I think it would be helpful to do another run if possible and put the
results online somewhere. That could significantly speed up the whole
issue.

- Christian

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