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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:18:43 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP:  please eliminate -lcompat usage in ports.
Message-ID:  <20040621171843.GN7956@sirius.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <20306.1087835450@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20306.1087835450@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:30:50PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> We need to lighten our burden of backwards compatibility code and
> libcompat is in the crosshairs.
>=20
> libcompat pertains to compatibility with FreeBSD-1 and earlier versions
> of BSD.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Therefore, please as soon as possible eliminate -lcompat use from
> your ports.

Questions:

1) Why get rid of backwards compatibility?
2) Where is -lcompat used?  Are you talking of compat3x/compat4x?

regards,
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wca

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