On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <4491C2F0.6000007_at_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. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech_at_alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech_at_alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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