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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--uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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, --=20 wca --uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA1xhzF47idPgWcsURAqsJAJ9mEXJ1UzyySe4aCUgBk5WTBYsoeACcCUEv 1PMvEWRRuXgXNC/jZcHnea8= =nwr+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uuKVzAmB+c+zQlhu--
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