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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:30:50 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   HEADSUP:  please eliminate -lcompat usage in ports.
Message-ID:  <20306.1087835450@critter.freebsd.dk>

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We need to lighten our burden of backwards compatibility code and
libcompat is in the crosshairs.

libcompat pertains to compatibility with FreeBSD-1 and earlier versions
of BSD.

libcompat may or may not disappear in 5-stable, but it is 100%
certain to die in -current as soon as 5-stable has been branched.

Therefore, please as soon as possible eliminate -lcompat use from
your ports.

Thankyou!

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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